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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for my Social Justice program.  I was near tears the first 10 pages or so, where Kozol rattles off facts and figures about the horrendous lives of the residents of the South Bronx.  The stories of these people are riveting, as are their unvarnished, matter-of-fact views on what the cause...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78662501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciated the way Kozol wove together narratives expressed by the people of Mott Haven themselves.  His study is a far cry from typical sociological studies of poor urban communities, but thats part of why I liked it so much.  It is accessible and lacks the academic jargon that turns so many peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81749514">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing Grace is a gripping and beautifully written book about Jonathon Kozol's experiences when he visits the South Bronx of New York the poorest congressional district in the United States. I'm on page 88 and so far it has been a difficult book to read because of the graphic images and statistics ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78044078">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kozol researches the lives of families living in some of the worst neighborhoods in the country.  What he finds surprises and confounds.  The book made me angry for the unbearable difficulties these American children face.  Government care, education and other solutions are almost laughable in their...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44238247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I use this text while teaching freshman English as a companion to Huxley's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World by Aldous Huxley">Brave New World</a>. It enlightens the all too appropriate comparison and starts a discussion of what America's landscape is really like and how it is crafted, and by whom.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54047574">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is not hard to read; Kozul is not an alarmist. But it is a call to action and a plea for awareness. It’s disturbing and it’s touching and it’s accusatory. If you’ve never been to a low-income housing project (like me), then you probably don’t understand why this book is important...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8988416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[People don't read this, or would b/c of some sociology class during their undergrad(shoot that's what I did) but I truely think its critical in our adult lives (as U.S. citizens, as voters) to understand what is going on in our social system - outside of our pretty little suburbs.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another incredible book.  I taught this one, too, in a class full of privileged white kids who'd only thought of the issues raised in the book as an abstraction, a bit of political or economic theory.  What a wake-up call!  It was a stretching experience for teacher and students alike.]]></body>
    
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