Within the next few pages here I intend to address two issues. First I will try to
             give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold, and second I will try explain the
             revelence which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First try to picture
             children in a slum where the squalor in their homes is just as bad as that which is in the
             streets. Where prostitution is rampant, thievery a common place and murder and death a
             daily occurrence. Crack-cocaine and heroin are sold in corner markets, and the dead eyes
             of men and women wandering about aimlessly in the streets of Mott Haven are all to
             common., Their bodies riddled with disease, disease which seems to control the
             neighborhood. This is Mott Haven, in New York City's South Bronx, the outback of this
             American nation's poorest congressional district, also the setting of Jonathan Kozol's
             disturbing representation of poverty in this country. The stories, which are captured
             Amazing Grace, are told in the simplest terms. They are told by children who have seen
             their parents die of AIDS and other disease, by mothers who complain about teenagers
             bagging dope and loading guns on fire escapes, by clergy who teach the poor to fight
             injustice and by police who are afraid to answer 911 calls. Kozol seems to be disparage
             about the situation of the poor in American today, especially when more and more the
             poor are blamed for being poor. Kozol's portrait of life in Mott Haven is gentle and
             passionate. Even though rats may chew through apartment walls in the homes of Mott
             Haven, the children still say their prayers at night. What seems to bother Kozol is that
             many people do not even want to look at this picture of America, but in Amazing Grace
             he dares us to recognize it does exist.
             Kozol spent a year wandering through Mott Haven and its neighboring
             communities; visiting churches, schools, hospitals, parks, and homes. Talking with...