Books by Allen Jones

Allen Jones jokes, "I'm not coming out of the closet until I'm finished having sex in the closet." An autobiography full of discovery, revelation, defeat and victory actually began at the age of 19, when Jones was told to, "Shut up you crippled-nigger-faggot." Read how that cruel remark became his best friend. He is a black, crippled homosexual ready to activate the activist within him to un-confuse the confused. "Blessed Assurance" is his epiphany chapter. In addition, "The Crazy Samaritan" is simply, a must read chapter, proving you only need to be your self to save a life. With help from God, his 9 siblings and his majestic late father, Jones describes in all 25 chapters, how he confronted and defeated his oppressor. Jones, an admitted contrarian, is also a philosopher, funny, insightful, thought provoking, wise, and controversial. Those oppressed by out-dated thinking due to ancient biblical customs, will experience their own epiphany by reading Case Game.

One man's ';gripping' story of growing up in the South Bronx during an era of upheavaland overcoming addiction to find success (Library Journal). Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a timethe 1950swhen that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball staruntil his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, Jones spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscience and a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, Jones used his skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe. In this memoir, he brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedywhere racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of the residents. ';Paints an earthy picture of the neighborhood in the 1950s, when the projects were home to working-class black and Latino families who pushed their children to excel, through the 1970s.' The New York Times