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A stunning and powerful look at childhood from the Pulitzer Prize-winning cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers. Ron Powers hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, birthplace of Mark Twain, whose portrayals of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn so brilliantly captured the very essence of boyhood. Powers returns to Hannibal to chronicle the horrific story of two murders, both committed by minors, and the trials that followed. Haunting and eye-opening, this is a tragically relevant dispatch from the homefront that will take its place alongside the works of Anthony Lucas, Robert Coles, and Tracy Kidder.Powers, Ron is the author of 'Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312262402 and ISBN 031226240X.
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