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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs, 2015

TL; DR: 

Conflict: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Himself

Music: Changed Man (Better Dayz)- 2Pac 

Entertainment: 3.5 (out of 4)

Intrigue: 4

Readability: 3.75

Fierce Female Status: 4

Editor’s Notes: 

Ultimate Reco Score: 4 out of 4.

My Favorite Full Review: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/september-book-recommendations-the-short-and-tragic-life-of-robert-peace/

xK

[micdotcom]

This is Robert Peace, a supremely intelligent man who earned a degree in molecular biochemistry and biophysics from Yale before returning to his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, after graduation. At the age of 30, he was murdered.

In his critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs tells Peace’s story. Hobbs and Peace were college roommates for four years, and Peace was a groomsman in Hobbs' wedding. Hobbs uses his unique vantage point, along with hundreds of hours of interviews with Peace's family, friends and acquaintances, to tell a gripping story of Peace's life, while exploring issues like race, privilege and loyalty.

Hobbs spoke to Mic about getting to know him, his family and his incredible life.

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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs (F, 20s, dark hair, black gloves with bows at wrists, L train)

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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs (F, 20s, camel-colored coat, dark hair, white shopping bag in lap, L train, 2015)

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People bring their own shit to the way they see things. If they don't believe what you're doing is right, that's their choice. But the choice has more to do with them than with you. Don't worry about it. You made your own choice.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs

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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs (F, 30s, brown curly hair, Coach purse, F train)

[theblackcollegian]

Newark Shooting Death of Yale Grad Robert Peace Becomes Subject of National Bestseller

Robert Peace was so precocious his nursery school teachers nicknamed him "the Professor."

So single-minded, he only learned to swim in high school — but soon became one of the best butterflyers in the state.

So promising, he was given a blank check by a bank executive to cover all his college costs, after the businessman met Peace at Newark's St. Benedict's Prep senior banquet.

And Peace, the son of a hard-working single mother from East Orange and a father imprisoned for a double murder, was so skilled at slipping between the streets and the Ivy League that his college pals didn't know he saved up $100,000 selling marijuana to fellow students while studying biochemistry at Yale, and that he returned to drug dealing in his 20s — a decision that led to his shooting death in his Newark marijuana growhouse in 2011 at the age of 30...

Read more... (NJ.com)

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