num_pages: 600
description: All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975. "On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for him. In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama he found him—the man he calls Nate Shaw—a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. . . . Theodore Rosengarten, the student, had found a black Homer, bursting with his black Odyssey and able to tell it with awesome intellectual power, with passion, with the almost frightening power of memory in a man who could neither read nor write but who sensed that the substance of his own life, and a million other black lives like his, were the very fiber of the nation's history." —H. Jack Geiger, New York Times Book Review  
language: English
title: All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
titlecomplete: All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
genres: Historical, History, Southern, Race, American History, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 452
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: Contemporary Affairs
publisher: University of Chicago Press