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Susan Burton

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

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Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society AwardsWinner of the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/Autobiography) Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeValuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.”-Los Angeles Review of BooksSusan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning memoir.”-Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times One woman's remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery-and recognition… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lynn, Cari / Alexander, Michelle (Solist)
  • ISBN: 978-1-62097-212-0
  • EAN: 9781620972120
  • Produktnummer: 20402602
  • Verlag: New Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 228 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.4 cm x D3.0 cm 488 g
  • Gewicht: 488

Über den Autor


Susan Burton is the founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. Nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time, Burton was a winner of AARP's prestigious Purpose Prize and has been a Starbucks Upstander, a CNN Top 10 Hero, and a Soros Justice Fellow. She lives in Los Angeles. Cari Lynn is a journalist and the author of five books of nonfiction, including Leg the Spread and The Whistleblower (with Kathryn Bolkovac). Lynn has written for O, The Oprah Magazine; Health; the Chicago Tribune; and Deadline Hollywood. She lives in Los Angeles. Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press). She lives in Ohio.

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