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The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League  Cover Image E-audiobook E-audiobook

The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League

Hobbs, Jeff 1980- (author.). Newbern, George, 1964- (narrator.).

Summary: A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets--and of one's own nature--when he returns home. When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace...

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  • ISBN: 9781442380448
  • ISBN: 1442380446
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (1 sound file (13 hr., 21 min., 28 sec.)) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2014.

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Participant or Performer Note: Read by George Newbern.
Source of Description Note:
Hard copy version record.
Subject: Peace, Robert -- 1980-2011
Hobbs, Jeff -- 1980- -- Friends and associates
Yale University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography
Working class African Americans -- Biography
African American college graduates -- Biography
Drug dealers -- New Jersey -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Genre: Audiobooks.
Downloadable audio books.

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