His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice

This book is my favorite of all time. I came here to purchase the paperback, but I have owned the hard cover since its printing.If you have any soul at all, this book will not let you forget you read it, and it will touch your heart - deeply. Within the first few pages, you are either sobbing, very angry at our so-called "justice" system, or both. This book gives Ron Goldman his life back... in a sense. He died trying to save someone else, and he was swept under the circus tent - hidden for too long. This book is beautiful.

I first ran across this book in one of my favorite hangouts, the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Des Moines, IA, on February 23, 1997. You may reasonably ask: "How do you know this for sure?" Well, the fact that the date was the first year anniversary of my own mother's murder kind of helped fix the date in my mind. I'd been sitting around my apartment until I felt that if I stayed there any longer, the walls were going to close in on me, so I headed out and ended up at a bookstore. Other people go to churches when they're upset---for me, it's a bookstore or a library. This book was on the shelves, and I took it down, curled up in one of the comfy chairs that B+N provides, and started to see what the Goldman family had to say. I soon found myself so choked up that I had to put the book down---and I giggled through the whole ending of the movie _Love Story._ The Goldmans remind us that every murder has victims other than the dead person---the murder hits at the families and friends of the dead person, as though the murderer had aimed at them as well. This book should be on the shelves of all victims-rights advocates.

HIS NAME IS RON in my opinion is the best of all the O.J SIMPSON books that I have read. It deals with what the GOLDMAN'S went through in this case. The book I feel really shows what violent crime can do to a victim's family and then because of the defendent's fame to have that anguish played out everyday in the pubilc eye I don't know how THE GOLDMAN FAMILY did it. But as I read I felt an even greater admiration for the family and sympathy for thier loss. I would recommend this book for anyone it is moving and disturbing as well as inspiring you don't have to have a relative who was a victim of violent crime to understand it either. So all in all read HIS NAME IS RON you won't soon forget it.

This book is amazing. From the very start you are drawn into the horror-filled lives of Ron Goldman's family. Whether you believe O.J's innocence or not, it's hard not to empathize with the family. Each paragraph is a work of art, causing you to feel each emotion so well described in the book. You can't help but wonder how it would be if your child was killed and the person who in you believe killed them is walking free, doing everything your child would be unable to do. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to read a great book about an extraordinary boy and the pain that follows his death.

I found this book to be a wondeful tribute to the "other" victim in the Simpson trial. It gave Ron Goldman a face, a personality and most important a life which he no longer has. His family shared their experiences of what few of us could only imagine to be a terrible and overwhelming time. The courage they showed in going to the courtroom each day, the fact their family was able to hold together through this terrible tragedy is a real boost to the human spirit. Through their words, they made Ron Goldman a real person in our eyes. The book is written with a lot of class and heartbreak. The fact that Ron and his family are the focus of this book and everything they went through was for Ron is inspiration in itself. The Goldman's wanted to make the world aware of what kind of person Ron was like and they did a magnificent job in doing that