Full name: Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

Author: LeAlan Jones Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Education Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780671004644 0671004646

Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two other little boys. Sometimes funny, often painful, but always charged with their dream of Our America, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman reach out to grab your attention and break your heart. Similar books: There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Long Haul by Myles Horton Great Books by David Denby Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson P.S. Your Not Listening by Eleanor Craig When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Gifted Hands by Ben Carson The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern