This is one of the few vintage Signet editions left from my family’s book collection. It reminds me of my Uncle Lawrence. RIP. He talked a lot about 
Claude Brown and this book. I’m due for a reread of Manchild in the Promised Land. I read it the year I graduated from high school and was completely blown away by it. I then understood a lot better some of the things my uncle was always talking about. Poignant and inspiring with plenty of lessons to be learned by all, it’s a must read!
“Claude Brown is a black man who made it out of the ghetto who pulled himself up from Harlem, from the gang wars, the crime, the dope pushing to become a law student at one of America’s leading universities. Mantled in the Promised Land is his story. It is one of the most extraordinary autobiographies of our time.” (back of paperback, Manchild in the Promised Land)
Manchild in the Promised Land – Claude Brown, paperback, 429 pages (A Signet Book)
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