The Beast Side
Living and Dying While Black in America
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- 12,99 US$
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A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country’s quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. Watkins
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri, happened; and then South Carolina hit the headlines; and then Baltimore blew up, it was hard to find any evidence of a new post-racial order.
Suddenly the entire country seemed to be awakened to a stark fact: African American men are in danger in America. This has only become clearer as groups like Black Lives Matter continue to draw attention to this reality daily not only online but also in the streets of our nation’s embattled cities.
D. Watkins. fought his way up on the eastside (the “beastside”) of Baltimore, Maryland—or “Bodymore, Murderland,” as his friends call it. He writes openly and unapologetically about what it took to survive life on the streets while the casualties piled up around him, including his own brother. Watkins pushed drugs to pay his way through school, staying one step ahead of murderous business rivals and equally predatory lawmen. When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enough—after the brutal killing of twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody—Watkins was on the streets as the city erupted. He writes about his bleeding city with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America.
In this new paperback edition, the author has also added new material in a section title "Bonus Tracks", responding to the rising tide of racial resentment and hate embodied by political figures like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as well as the heartbreaking killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and the impact this has had on issues of race in America. This book is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of the chaos of our current political moment.
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The Publisher Screwed Me!
This is interesting and something I’ve never encountered. I purchased the book and downloaded it. Was reading it and needed to download it again, which I’ve done for countless other books I purchased. NOT IN THIS CASE. Come to find out, the publisher changed editions in the Book Store and I cannot download without paying full price. After tracking down what was happening through Apple, I contacted the publisher and here is their reply:
"Thank you for writing. Purchasing the first edition of a book—as an ebook or print—does not entitle you to every later edition. In addition to that, we have no way of solving this problem for you. We do not have a mechanism to supply secure ebooks to readers. We only sell ebooks through retailers that can provide security to content. My apologies that we can’t do anything more to help you.
--Bill Wolfsthal”
Now, I didn’t want the new edition, I wanted the one I had originally purchased. But that is not available!
This is NOT good customer service!!