Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America

Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America

by Geoffrey Canada
Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America

Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America

by Geoffrey Canada

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Overview

From a troubled youth navigating the mean streets of the South Bronx to an inspiring educational activist who evokes praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, Geoffrey Canada has made a remarkable personal journey that cemented his dedication to underserved youth. His award-winning work was featured in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for “Superman,” and he has been hailed by media, activists, teachers, and national leaders. Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” and Oprah Winfrey refers to him as “an angel from God.” Here, Canada draws on his years of work with inner-city youth and on his own turbulent boyhood to offer a moving and revelatory look at the little-understood emotional lives of boys. And who better for this task than the man Elizabeth Mehren of the Los Angeles Times calls “one of this country’s leading advocates for youth.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807023174
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 12/10/1998
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.51(h) x 0.45(d)
Lexile: 970L (what's this?)

About the Author

Geoffrey Canada is president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City, which President Barack Obama called “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children.” Canada has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, and The Colbert Report, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential people of 2011 for his work in child advocacy. He is the author of Fist Stick Knife Gun.
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