Ron Suskind is the author of The Globe and Mail and New York Times bestsellersThe One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, and A Hope in the Unseen(Simon& Schuster). From 1993 to 2000 he wasthe senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won aPulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Hecurrently writes for various nationalmagazines, including The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. Suskind lives inWashington, D.C. with his wife, CorneliaKennedy Suskind, and their two sons.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: May 4, 1999 Price: $15.99
Ron Suskind tells the story of Cedric Jennings, an African- American teenager who is ferociously determined to study his way out of the inner city and get his piece of the American dream. Suskind follows Jennings from his early years in high school through his first year at Brown University.