Redemption: From Original Gangster to Nobel Prize Nominee - The Extraordinary Life Story of Stanley Tookie Williams (Taschenbuch) von Stanley Williams   Synopsis: As co-founder of deadly LA street gang, 'the Crips', Stanley 'Tookie' Williams was the most feared man on the streets of Los Angeles. For over twenty years, the Crips ran a reign of terror on the streets of LA through drug dealing, violence and shootings and their growth has been explosive. Today there are over 12,000 Crips members living in LA alone and the gang continues to spread as far afield as Canada, South Africa and Germany. In 1971, at the age of 17, Tookie Williams already had a fearsome reputation as a fighter and a 'general' of South Central's west side, an area torn apart by vicious gang wars, drugs and poverty. He teamed up with Raymond Lee Washington to protect their community against the deadly threat of the street gangs and they formed their own gang which would later become known as 'the Crips.' Vicious intercede feuding and power struggles soon plagued the gang and by 1979 the Crips had become just like the gang members they sought to protect themselves from as they terrorized their own communities and flooded the neighbourhoods with guns and crack cocaine. Soon, there would be Crips gangs all across the state of California as America entered one of the most violent and deadly periods in its gangland history. But since his conviction for the murders of four people in 1981 - charges he continues to refute - the Crips' co-founder now decries his own bloody legacy and his continued efforts to teach young people about the dangers of joining street gangs has earned him a Nobel peace prize nomination and a stay of execution on death row. This is his extraordinary story. Original Gangster was written during a six and a half year period of solitary confinement in a maximum security cell in San Quentin state penitentiary. It was here Stanley 'Tookie' Williams had time to reflect on the violence and brutality of the Crips legacy; the destruction and devastation left in their wake and of the ultimate failure of the American dream. Rezensionen ansehen...   Angebote zu  Redemption ,  Original ,  Gangster  ab 1 Euro! Siehe auch folgende Artikel: Life in Prison von Stanley Tookie Williams Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A.Gang Member von Sanyika Shakur Redemption Home of the Body Bags von Terrell C. Wright Mehr zu  Biographies & Memoirs,  True Crime Home ...,    Angebote ansehen ...,    Begleitseite ... Herausgeber dieser Seite ist DomainLoc.com GmbH - Partner von Amazon.de Copyright © DomainLoc.com GmbH (Impressum)