Unequal Fortunes: Snapshots from the South Bronx

by Laura Scheiver and Arthur Levine

Book Overview

In this powerful book, Arthur Levine (president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation) and coauthor Laura Scheiber revisit the South Bronx, where Levine grew up in the 1960s, and compare his experiences with those of a group of teenagers coming of age in the same neighborhood nearly 40 years later. Shaken by the violent death of Leo Disla, one of the young men in the group, Levine and Scheiber explore what happened to Leo and how society failed him...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807750751
• ISBN13: 9780807750759
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"