All God's children the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
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. Butterfield examines the heritage of violence that followed Bosket's family from their days in slavery in South Carolina to the present, uncovering brutality which is perpetuated by time, racism, and circumstance.
"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. Butterfield examines the heritage of violence that followed Bosket's family from their days in slavery in South Carolina to the present, uncovering brutality which is perpetuated by time, racism, and circumstance."@en
"A startling examination of an American heritage of violence - a legacy from the pre-Revolutionary white rural South to today's urban America - that helps answer the question of how America became so violent. The tradition is reflected in the experiences of one black family, the Boskets, from the days of slavery to the present."@en
"A history of violence in America as experienced by one family, from slavery in Edgefield, S.C., to prison in the urban North."@en
"A history of violence in America as experienced by one family, from slavery in Edgefield, S.C., to prison in the urban North."
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