Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
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Hope in the Unseen
An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Author: Ron Suskind

Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez

Unabridged: 17 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/26/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

New York Times best-selling investigative journalist Ron Suskind based this book on his Pulitzer Prize-winning articles about Cedric Jennings, a black youth struggling to survive one of D.C.’s toughest school districts. A moving portrait of inner city life, A Hope in the Unseen offers a view of life through the eyes of someone trying desperately to make his way up from the bottom.

About Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind is the author of the # 1 New York Times bestseller The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed A Hope in the Unseen. He has been senior national affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Visit the author's website at www.ronsuskind.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kinga

The five stars go equally to Ron Suskind the author and Cedric Jennings, the hero of the book. As any other review will tell you it is a story about a boy from the ghetto who somehow managed to learn something in his gang-infested high school (think Gangsta's Paradise) and made it to one of the Ivy......more

Goodreads review by Louisa

I had just read Hillbilly Elegy when I started reading A Hope in the Unseen. I think they make fantastic comparisons. I greatly preferred JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy for the simple reason that it is an autobiography rather than a biography. With A Hope in the Unseen, a white woman reading a book writ......more

Goodreads review by Gaye

Envision a mother and her six-year-old son standing outside an apartment house on the wrong side of Washington, D.C. The mother bends her knees so she will be on a level with the boy. She directs his vision down four long blocks to the school he will attend. On every corner boys, young men are gathe......more