Caesar's Gladiator Pit Author:Buddy Martin Out of publication. Author's account of his life in jail. Info on the Author - — Aubran "Buddy" Martin is presently incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-three, Buddy Martin was sentenced to die in the electric chair. He spent two years in solitary confinement and began his educati... more »on through reading.
Excerpt from Credits by Author:
"As human beings, when caught up in the perception of human achievement, we tend to look only at the individual who conclludes the expressive statement of that achievement. we never see the coach who stands in the unrecognizable background. We never see the mulitple social forces that hammer, bend, mold, weld, forge, and discipline that person so he can attain the state of excellence. From many people I've learned man cannot achieve any sense of greatness without the influential force of a caring neighbor.......As for you, Caesar, you are a thoroughly rotten son-of-a-bitch. I give to you that which is due. You have treated me, and my people, as if we were less than human. You have stripped us, beat us, lied to us, isolated us, tormented us, and spit upon us. And, too, I have watched you rip and tear at all the good I have tried to build. You tell me it is wrong and against your law for me to achieve any meaningful social and personal accomplishments. I charge you with being counterporductive and working against the best interests of humanity. You try to represent us, as a people, as being evil. I say you are a liar, Caesar, and you are lost amid the depths of your own vindictive illusions. Add my book to your great and extensive library and we may all have a new sense of hope for our future."« less