Children of Crisis

Children of Crisis is an award winning series of 5 volumes by child psychiatrist and author Robert Coles published by Little, Brown and Company between 1967 and 1977; a social study of children in the United States. A Study in Courage and Fear, Volume 1 of Children of Crisis Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, Volume 2 of Children of Crisis along with Volume 3 it won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The South Goes North, Volume... more
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