All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (Vintage)
by Fox Butterfield
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Author: Fox ButterfieldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-08
ISBN: 0307280330
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: this from a descendant of Capt James Butler
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a descendant of James Butler. For the record, that family is not Scotch-Irish, they were English and had been for hundreds of years. They went to Virginia from England in the 1600's not because they were poor or down trodden but because they were wealthy and well connected with the intentions of making more money.
Shoddy research just makes me cringe.
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Summary of All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (Vintage)
A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield?s masterpiece, All God?s Children, a searing examination of the caustic cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans.Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Butterfield traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans. From the terrifying scourge of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction to the brutal streets of 1970s New York, this is an unforgettable examination of the painful roots of violence and racism in America.
Willie Bosket was charming, magnetic, and brilliant. He was also the most cold-blooded criminal the New York State penal system had ever seen. By the time he was in his teens, he had committed over two hundred armed robberies and twenty-five stabbings. Fox Butterfield examines the heritage of violence that followed Bosket's family from their days in slavery in South Carolina to the present.
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