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Death At An Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools
by Jonathan Kozol
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Hardcover. Early Printing. 5.75 x 8in. xiii. 240pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed by the author on the title page. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, a small nick and scuff of the spine, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
Synopsis
In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.
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- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29248
- Title
- Death At An Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools
- Author
- Jonathan Kozol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1967
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- Rubbing
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- New
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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