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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women - Paperback

by Susan Burton, Cari Lynn
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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan Burton, Cari Lynn, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by)Publish date:2019-02-12Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620974353ISBN-10:1620974355UPC:9781620974353Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Activists, Discrimination, Civil RightsSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCCPKBQZ7D

Significant media/awards for the hardcover edition: The hardcover edition received significant national print and broadcast attention, from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times (who is likely to write again about the prison paperback edition), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, Democracy Now!, the Daily Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, NPR's Fresh Air and Marketplace. It won the Goddard Riverside Social Justice Book Prize and the NAACP Image Award. The trade paperback edition will benefit from publicity around a special paperback edition being distributed free to incarcerated people in every state in 2018 (as featured in Publishers Weekly and Inside Bookselling).

Continued promotion, tied to the author's nation-wide activism: Susan Burton tirelessly promotes the book and connects it to her ongoing advocacy work across the country, which involves talks at prisons, book talks, and high-profile speaking engagements as well as community- and school-wide reads.

Growing concern about criminal justice reform: Thanks in part to the extraordinary success of The New Jim Crow, criminal justice reform and ending mass incarceration are central policy issues in every state and Susan Burton is a leading figure in these struggles.

Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620974353ISBN-10:1620974355UPC:9781620974353Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Activists, Discrimination, Civil RightsSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCCPKBQZ7D
Susan Burton is the founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. Nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time, Burton was a winner of AARP's prestigious Purpose Prize and has been a Starbucks "Upstander," a CNN Top 10 Hero, and a Soros Justice Fellow. She lives in Los Angeles. Cari Lynn is a journalist and the author of five books of nonfiction, including Leg the Spread and The Whistleblower (with Kathryn Bolkovac). Lynn has written for O, The Oprah Magazine; Health; the Chicago Tribune; and Deadline Hollywood. She lives in Los Angeles. Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press). She lives in Ohio.
Publisher: New Press

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Susan Burton, Cari Lynn, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by)

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Susan Burton, Cari Lynn

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