{"product_id":"all-gods-dangers-the-life-of-nate-shaw","title":"All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosengarten, Theodore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 31-07-2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525562850_used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an “over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people—and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw’s.” —\u003cbr\u003e\nThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Extraordinarily rich and compelling . . . possesses the same luminous power we associate with Faulkner . . . the same marvelous idiom, the same wry, sardonic humor . . . [ it] will stun the listener-reader, hold him in its grip, and never really quite let go of him?” —\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Eloquent and revelatory. When, finally, this big book is put down, one feels exhilarated. This is an anthem to human endurance.” —Studs Terkel,\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Republic“Nineteen seventy-four was a good year for nonfiction writing in America. Robert A. Caro’s monumental biography of Robert Moses,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Power Broker, came out. So did Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s\u003cbr\u003e\nAll the President’s Men. So did\u003cbr\u003e\nWorking, by Studs Terkel, and Robert M. Pirsig’s\u003cbr\u003e\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Each was a finalist for the National Book Award. Yet the winner in general nonfiction—the category was then called contemporary affairs—was\u003cbr\u003e\nAll God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, an oral history of an illiterate black Alabama sharecropper. . . . It is superb—both serious history and a serious pleasure, a story that reads as if Huddie Ledbetter spoke it while W. E. B. Du Bois took dictation. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\nAll God’s Dangers . . . deserves a place in the front rank of American autobiographies.” —Dwight Garner,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “In moments of joy or grief, [Shaw] is capable of a sort of poetry. . . . Every page of this book is resonant with Shaw’s intelligence, with his delight in the use of the mind. And this is a conscious delight: ‘I’ve learned many a thing that’s profitable to me, and I’ve learned a heap that ain’t profitable, but to learn anything at all is a blessin’.’” —Wendell Berry,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Nation\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “The authentic voice of a warm, brave, and decent individual. . . . A pleasure to read. . . . Shaw’s observations on the life and people around him, clothed in wonderfully expressive language, are fresh and clear.” —H. W. Bragdon,\u003cbr\u003e\nChristian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “Astonishing . . . Nate Shaw was a formidable bearer of memories. . . . Miraculously, this man’s wrenching tale sings of life’s pleasures: honest work, the rhythm of the seasons, the love of relatives and friends, the stubborn persistence of hope when it should have vanished. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\nAll God’s Dangers is most valuable for its picture of pure courage.” —Paul Gray,\u003cbr\u003e\nTime \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “A triumph of ideas and historical content as well of expression and style.” —Randall Jarrell,\u003cbr\u003e\nHarvard Educational Review \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “Tremendous . . . a testimony of human nobility . . . the record of a heroic man with a phenomenal memory and a life experience of a kind of seldom set down in print . . . a person of extraordinary stature, industrious, brave, prudent, and magnanimous. . . . One emerges from these hundreds of pages wiser, sadder, and better because of them. A unique triumph!” —Alfred C. Ames,\u003cbr\u003e\nChicago Tribune Book World \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “Awesome and powerful. . . . A living history of nearly a century of cataclysmic change in the life of the Southerner, both black and white. . . . Nate Shaw spans our history from slavery to Selma, and he can evoke each age with an accuracy and poignancy so pure that we stand amazed.” —\u003cbr\u003e\nBaltimore Sun \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTheodore Rosenga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525562856\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VINTAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50234442416432,"sku":"Trans_9780525562856","price":1120.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81ox4Mf4hNL.jpg?v=1761033577","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/all-gods-dangers-the-life-of-nate-shaw","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}