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And there's an incredible book called There Are No Children Here. It was written in the '9s about Caprini Green and the public housing and how dangerous it was.
Batya Ungar-Sargon · The Megyn Kelly Show · Sep 2025 Listen at 1:37:29 What they say about it
- Discusses Cabrini Green housing2
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And I know this is about a different Chicago housing project that Henry her projects but there was that Alex CT's book There Are No Children Here about sort of what this what did this do to the community life in Cabrini Green.
You know before we even begin to talk about the subject of this book which is very present day I want to start with with a book that you wrote several books ago that came out in 1991 There Are No Children Here I think everyone who read this book and obviously many people did I was a huge bestseller.
And I think one of the things for me that's really sobering from writing There Are No Children Here 28 years ago and is how little things have changed.
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Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here is a powerful 1991 non-fiction book that chronicles the lives of two brothers growing up amidst extreme violence in Chicago's public housing. On The Megyn Kelly Show, Batya Ungar-Sargon recommended the book to illustrate the severe dangers faced by children in Chicago public housing developments like Cabrini Green. On The Book Review, Gilbert Cruz brought up the book to compare community life and experiences across different Chicago housing projects. Pamela Paul also discussed the bestselling book on The Book Review, noting its lasting cultural impact and how readers continue to care deeply about the main characters, Pharaoh and Lafayette. Alex Kotlowitz reflected during the episode on how sobering it was to realize, decades after writing the book, how little conditions for vulnerable children had actually changed. Pamela Paul later praised Kotlowitz and his book while discussing the reviews of another author's work on homelessness. People recommend this classic piece of investigative journalism because it offers an intimate, deeply empathetic look at systemic poverty and childhood resilience, refusing to look away from harsh urban realities while honoring the humanity of those who survive them.
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Batya Ungar-Sargon And there's an incredible book called There Are No Children Here. It was written in the '9s about Caprini G… 1
“And there's an incredible book called There Are No Children Here. It was written in the '9s about Caprini Green and the public housing and how dangerous it was.”
Pamela Paul book has gotten a rave review from Alex Cotler who wrote The Incredible Book There Are No Children Here abo… 4
“book has gotten a rave review from Alex Cotler who wrote The Incredible Book There Are No Children Here about children in public housing in Chicago and then subsequently many other incredible prizewinning books”
“you know before we even begin to talk about the subject of this book which is very present day I want to start with with a book that you wrote several books ago that came out in 1991 There Are No Children Here I think everyone who read this book and obviously many people did I was a huge bestseller”
“so this is a subject that has stayed with you with There Are No Children Here you had a kind of very clear framework to to work within right you have two main characters”
“because all of us again are still caring about pharaoh and Lafayette from There Are No Children Here”
Alex Kotlowitz and I think one of the things for me that's really sobering from writing There Are No Children Here 28 year… 1
“and I think one of the things for me that's really sobering from writing There Are No Children Here 28 years ago and is how little things have changed”
Gilbert Cruz and I know this is about a different Chicago housing project that Henry her projects but there was that Ale… 1
“and I know this is about a different Chicago housing project that Henry her projects but there was that Alex CT's book There Are No Children Here about sort of what this what did this do to the community life in Cabrini Green”