TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hobbs,Jeff
TI  - The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League 
SN  - 9781476731902 (hardcover)
AV  - E 185.97 H682s 2014
U1  - 974.9B 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Peace, Robert,
KW  - Hobbs, Jeff,
KW  - Yale University
KW  - Alumni and alumnae
KW  - Biography
KW  - Working class African Americans
KW  - African American college graduates
KW  - Drug dealers
KW  - New Jersey
N1  - Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2014
Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2015
N2  - 	
Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace's relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds
ER  -