Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol explores the lives of children and families in the South Bronx, one of America's poorest urban areas. Kozol highlights the systemic issues of poverty, racism,...

David is Alice Washington's son. At the time Kozol visits Mrs. Washington, David is a senior in high school. They live on East Tremont Street in the Bronx, and Mrs. Washington is sick from AIDS. A...

The structure and organization of Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation is chronological. Written in a one-year period between the summers of 1993 and 1994, the...