give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold, and second I will try explain the

revelence which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First try to picture

children in a slum where the squalor in their homes is just as bad as that which is in the

streets. Where prostitution is rampant, thievery a common place and murder and death a

daily occurrence. Crack-cocaine and heroin are sold in corner markets, and the dead eyes

of men and women wandering about aimlessly in the streets of Mott Haven are all to

common., Their bodies riddled with disease, disease which seems to control the

neighborhood. This is Mott Haven, in New York City's South Bronx, the outback of this

American nation's poorest congressional district, also the setting of Jonathan Kozol's

disturbing representation of poverty in this country. The stories, which are captured

Amazing Grace, are told in the simplest terms. They are told by children who have seen

their parents die of AIDS and other disease, by mothers who complain about teenagers

bagging dope and loading guns on fire escapes, by clergy who teach the poor to fight

and kids, social workers, religious leaders, and principals and teachers; struggling to try

devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that

forecasting visions and the openness and humanity of the remarkable people whose

Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires and gang rivalries take just as high a toll on this

Guilliani for the problems in the Bronx. There was little discussion about how much of the

about the value of such children to an unsupportive nation. Amazing Grace reveals the

Many people would like to believe in the phrase, NIMBY(Not in My Back Yard),

allowed to live in such conditions. If on the other hand anything can, it may be Kozol's

them if I were a poor child, not given the chance to properly learn and grow, like those

to see this book as manipulating and only telling on part of the story. It could be argued

Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological. What is the value

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