Short Synopsis
All God's Dangers, which won the National Book Award in 1975, still rings true forty years later.

Full Synopsis
Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's livestock. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison.

This triumphant autobiography, All God's Dangers, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, black and white, and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.

"This book is an absolute aural treat. . . . Sean Crisden narrates the work with just the right regional accent, cadence, and pacing." ---AudioFile

"There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's." ---The New York Times

"Eloquent and revelatory. . . . This is an anthem to human endurance." ---Studs Terkel, New Republic

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