The Dishonor of Violence
Few nonfiction books take the reader on a journey of discovery in which the audience, the author and the subject all seem not to know where it will lead. Fox Butterfield’s All God’s Children is a...
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Fox Butterfield. “All God’s Children.” 389 pp. Vintage (2008 edition). As I began to research New York’s juvenile justice system last fall, I kept hearing the same story over and over again. It went...
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In 1988, then-New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield was assigned to write an article about a young, black man confined at Woodbourne Correctional Facility north of New York City in Sullivan County....
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All God’s Children, by Fox Butterfield. 1995. “All God’s Children” began when author Fox Butterfield was asked by his editors at the New York Times to write a story about a man called Willie Bosket who...
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