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In 1998, at the moment that a publisher had approached Bruce Davidson about a booklet of his 1959 Brooklyn Gang images, former gang leader Bobby Powers unexpectedly telephoned the Davidsons. Over another ten years, Emily Davidson looked after an ongoing talk with Powers to be able to bring to light his struggle to defeat his drug-ridden and violent recent and to motivate others along with his example. Through the words and reflections of the ex - medication addict and petty criminal, this booklet relates the long, agonizing trip from youthful urban assault and despair to the life of a committed and generous professional. Beginning in a working-class Brooklyn area in the middle-1950s where alcohol abuse and poverty were rampant, Bobby Powers went from being an illiterate gang leader and notorious medication supplier to a demolished individual who possessed lost everything, including family, good friends, and himself, all presented in his own words and in grim detail in this booklet. At a critical turning point in his life, knowing the threat of his conducts to survival, he entered detoxification and embarked on the arduous path to recovery and self-understanding. This technique involved not only acknowledging and coming to conditions with the injury he previously inflicted on his children and more, but also requesting their forgiveness. Having achieved a fresh life-style as a responsible and caring adult, Bobby Powers is today, at 69, a nationally respected drug dependency counselor who may have aided a broad spectrum of people, including ex - gang customers. His story signifies a brutal and motivating lesson in individuals frailty, degradation, and change.
