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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Cover:Hardcover What was it like forA heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streetsand of ones own naturewhen he returns home. When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Roberts life was rough from the beginning in the crime ridden