Showing Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Manchild in the Promised Land One of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time, "Manchild in the Promised Land "is a seminal work of modern literature published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black writers like Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest stre... Full description