A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield's masterpiece, All God's Children, a searing examination of the caustic
cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans.
Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway
riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Butterfield
traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination
of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans. From the terrifying
scourge of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction to the brutal streets of 1970s New York, this is an unforgettable
examination of the painful roots of violence and racism in America.