All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw
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All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw
University of Chicago Press, 2000
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"Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1974"--T.p. verso (CIP)
Includes index
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All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975. "On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for him. In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama he found him-the man he calls Nate Shaw-a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. . . . Theodore Rosengarten, the student, had found a black Homer, bursting with his black Odyssey and able to tell it with awesome intellectual power, with passion, with the almost frightening power of memory in a man who could neither read nor write but who sensed that the substance of his own life, and a million other black lives like his, were the very fiber of the nation's history." -H. Jack Geiger, New York Times Book Review
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