{"product_id":"life-after-life-a-story-of-rage-and-redemption-9781451646122","title":"Life After Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the haunting and gloriously redemptive tale of Evans D. Hopkins's many lives, a sweeping journey from promising middle-class youth to civil rights militant, from criminal and convict to celebrated writer and enlightened man.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvans D. Hopkins was born during the Jim Crow era in a second-rate, segregated hospital, and educated in segregated primary schools in Danville, Virginia, a town that proudly proclaimed itself the \"Last Capital of the Confederacy.\" With parents who stressed the value of education, as a teenager he was in the forefront of desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement. At the same time, he fell in love with the traditionally white man's game of tennis, modeling himself after his idol, the legendary Arthur Ashe, only to be swept off the courts by the Black Panther Party at the age of sixteen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust out of high school, Hopkins moved to Panther headquarters in Oakland, California, where he spent two years writing for the Party newspaper, covering the trial of the San Quentin Six, working with Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and taking part in their move into politics when Seale ran for mayor of Oakland. He became historian for the group, documenting the years when altercations with authorities resulted in the deaths of numerous Panthers. And he was witness to the internal strife within the Party that led to the group's decline and his own decision to leave in the fall of 1974. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen he returned to Danville, Hopkins was a different man, disillusioned and filled with rage and a legacy of militancy. He was, in his own words, \"the quintessential angry young black man.\" Convicted of armed robbery and given a life sentence, Hopkins would spend twenty of the next twenty-two years in the prisons of Virginia. Inside, fighting despair and isolation and dreaming of escape, Hopkins sought salvation in the written word, writing in his cell in the early morning hours to escape the noise of the prison. Focusing on issues of social and criminal injustice, Hopkins would begin reaching a national audience when his inside account of an execution, \"Who's Afraid of Virginia's Chair,\" was published in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParoled in 1997, Hopkins returned home, a free man at last, but facing the overwhelming challenges of caring for his aging parents and daily life in a world that was new after so many years of incarceration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this stunning look back at a man's struggle with himself and the world around him, \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e is also about the influences that sustained Hopkins's development despite overwhelming odds, influences that allowed him to emerge from two decades of imprisonment an uncorrupted man, still able to give to his family and community. Finally, \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a searingly honest view of events in America in the second half of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a child, a militant, a prisoner, and, most important, a writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-8287833\"\u003eEvans D. Hopkins\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451646122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1451646127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO002000\"\u003eCultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC001000\"\u003eEthnic Studies | American | African American \u0026amp; Black Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvans D. Hopkins\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Danville, Virginia, and divides his time between there and Richmond, Virginia, where he worksas a freelance writer. His pieces have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Washington Post, Slate, \u003c\/i\u003e Nerve.com, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, In These Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSouthern Exposure, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. His writing has been anthologized in several volumes, including the \u003ci\u003ePrentice Hall Reader, \u003c\/i\u003e Graywolf Press's \u003ci\u003eThe Private I, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Nerve.com.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e is his first full-length\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43830592077963,"sku":"9781451646122","price":21.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_8f371c5e-0245-4cb4-993e-f051995ff2db.jpg?v=1755580033","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/life-after-life-a-story-of-rage-and-redemption-9781451646122","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}