Dimensions
133 x 206 x 27mm
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, an area where the threats of poverty and violence are real, but whose residents regard it as 'the best place in the world'.But Southie becomes a place controlled by resident gangster Whitey Bulger, later revealed to be an FBI informant even as he ran the drug culture that Southie supposedly never had. It was a world primed for the escalation of class violence and then, with deadly and sickening inevitability, of racial violence that swirled around forced bussing. MacDonald, eight years old when the riots hit, gives an explosive account of the asphalt warfare. He tells of feeling 'part of it all, part of something bigger than I'd ever imagined, part of something that was on the national news every night'.
