Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy

EX-LIBRARY Copy with DISCARD stamps and a card pocket. Spine cocked, edge wear. The dust jacket is in protective Mylar and adhered to the endpapers. 320 pages with two black and white photos of the author, one as a young soldier and one from years later that matches the photo on the back of the jacket. SIGNED "Race Sample" on the front free endpaper. This is Sample's autobiography about growing up the son of a white redneck father and a black prostitute mother, alienation from society, the sub-human brutality of seventeen years in the Texas prison system, and his incredible turnaround to become the first ex-convict in Texas to work out of the Governor's office. He became a noted speaker and was appointed division head for a department in the City of Austin. He has received awards for his service in the corrections field and rehabilitation of ex-offenders, and in 1981 he was recognized as the Outstanding Crime Prevention Citizen in Texas. Racehoss was the prison name he finally came to accept. He even had his name changed to include the middle name Race. A sound, affordable reading copy signed by the author, but graded only Fair with the library markings. B37

Product Info

ISBN: 0890154422

ISBN-13: 9780890154427

Publisher: Eakin Press

Year: 1984

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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Country: United States