Hobbs, Jeff,  1980- <br/><br/>
The short and tragic life of Robert Peace :  a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / 
Jeff Hobbs. 
 - First Scribner hardcover edition. 
 - viii, 406 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2014<br/>Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2015 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace's relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781476731902 (hardcover)  9781476731919 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Peace, Robert, 1980-2011. <br/>Hobbs, Jeff, 1980- --Friends and associates.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Yale University--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Working class African Americans--Biography.<br/>African American college graduates--Biography.<br/>Drug dealers--New Jersey--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 185.97  / H682s 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>974.9  B