About the book
It recounts George Floyd's life and examines systemic racism.
It won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Curated by intendle
Published
History, Society & Current Affairs
His Name Is George Floyd
One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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Viking (Penguin Random House)
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice is a biography by the journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, published by Viking in May 2022.
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
The world knows how George Floyd died; this book restores how he lived.
Washington Post journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa reconstruct Floyd's forty-six years - a childhood in Houston's Third Ward, a talented athlete's thwarted ambitions, addiction, fatherhood, the move to Minneapolis - and set that life against the systems that shaped and constrained it.
It is at once an intimate biography and a study of structural racism in housing, education, health care and policing, the forces that pressed on one man from birth. intendle recommends it as a model of humane, rigorous journalism that refuses to reduce a person to a symbol. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and a National Book Award finalist, it turns a name from a hashtag back into a human being.
Sobering and essential, it insists that understanding a death requires understanding a whole life.
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Pages
432
Published
2022
Viking (Penguin Random House)
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Hardcover
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Language
English
History, Society & Current Affairs
ISBN
978-0593490617
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