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All God's Dangers The Life of Nate Shaw
Author: Theodore Rosengarten

All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975. — "There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."--New York Times — "On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical... more » organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for him. In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama he found him--the man he calls Nate Shaw--a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. . . . Theodore Rosengarten, the student, had found a black Homer, bursting with his black Odyssey and able to tell it with awesome intellectual power, with passion, with the almost frightening power of memory in a man who could neither read nor write but who sensed that the substance of his own life, and a million other black lives like his, were the very fiber of the nation's history." --H. Jack Geiger, New York Times Book Review

"Extraordinarily rich and compelling . . . possesses the same luminous power we associate with Faulkner." --Robert Coles,Washington Post Book World

"Eloquent and revelatory. . . . This is an anthem to human endurance." --Studs Terkel, New Republic

"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, Christian Science Monitor

"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 . . . All God's Dangers is most valuable for its picture of pure courage."--Paul Grey, Time

"A triumph of ideas and historical content as well of expression and style."--Randall Jarrell, Harvard Educational Review

"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 hundred of pages wiser, sadder, and better because of them. A unique triumph!"--Alfred C. Ames, Chicago Tribune Book World

"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."--Baltimore Sun

ISBN-13: 9780226727745
ISBN-10: 0226727742
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
Pages: 600
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Celeste F. (SisterGirl) reviewed All God's Dangers : The Life of Nate Shaw on 5/18/2007 + 20 more book reviews

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Excellent memoirs of an elderly black tenant-farmer in Alabama. He was involved in the Sharecropper Union Riots of the 30s. A scholarly - yet never boring - work by a professional. Winner: National Book Award.

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