The Bond, Margaret Bernstein
The Bond, Margaret Bernstein
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The Bond
Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers

Author: Margaret Bernstein, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis

Narrator: Richard Allen

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/18/2007


Synopsis

The Three Doctors—Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt—discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: as children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance. While each young man dealt with the turmoil caused by an absent father, with no male role model to turn to for advice, each veered dangerously close to a life of delinquency, drugs, and crime. But despite great odds, the three overcame the statistics. In high school, they formed the Pact, a promise to one another that they would become doctors, and it kept them dedicated to one another and to their dream and helped to put them on the road to successful careers as physicians.

In The Bond, the Three Doctors plumb their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness. But rather than cling to any bitterness or pain they may have felt as children about their fathers' inability to be in their lives, as adults Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt sought out their fathers and worked to reconnect with them. In the doctors' own words—and their fathers'—they describe the crucial lessons they learned, identifying ways to stem the tide of fatherlessness that's sweeping through communities across the country. Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man.

About Margaret Bernstein

Margaret Bernstein is an award-winning journalist at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. She was founding editor of that paper's everywoman section, and she also served as assistant city editor at the Tucson Citizen in Arizona. In addition to her journalism awards, she won the 2000 National Big Sister of the Year Award from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rickie on February 26, 2015

The Book The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers starts of with a kid by George talking about how he went through struggles with his dad. Also how education was his way out of poverty and how his dad was really never was around. His father was a drunk and liquor t......more

Goodreads review by Cazual23 on July 05, 2008

Well, George, Sam & Rameck have done it again. I love these guys. They bring the conversations that need to happen to address the crises in our nation's ghettos. I am so thankful for them. When I assign my South Bronx classes to write a short story about an important event in their lives, the most......more

Goodreads review by Kristjan on February 13, 2012

Heartbreaking, but hopeful. This book was very eye-opening for me, regarding a way of life that I have known very little about. It supports my belief that one of the biggest problems in this country is not poverty or crime, but absentee fathers. But fathers shouldn't carry all the blame. Sometimes t......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on August 18, 2018

After reading The Pact, I couldn't wait to read this. It was important for me to connect with the brothers. I found this to be just as fascinating. Brick City has taken control of so many of our young men. Brick City isn't just a physical location in a major metropolitan area. It's imprisonment. It......more

Goodreads review by Nandi on January 14, 2008

One of the best books I've read on males making peace with their fathers. The sequel to The Pact, you will not be disappointed with this book. Written from the point of view of the doctors,as well as their fathers. Highly recommended.......more