Algiers Motel Incident

Name: Algiers Motel Incident
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ISBN: 9780801857775

ISBN-10: 0801857775

ISBN-13: 9780801857775

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: John Hersey, Thomas J. Sugrue, William J. Eisen

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"Hersey's book is based on months of personal investigation and contains evidence never before made public. He ransacked every available piece of documentation. Thus armed, he tried to work out a tentative scenario of events and, more important, used his data to build up what may be the truest picture yet of the white policeman's role in the ghettos... His collage of interviews, fact, and intuition... jells into a forceful dossier against racism in the U.S. system of justice." -- R.A. Sokolov, Newsweek Thirty years ago, three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in The Algiers Motel Incident, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 12/19/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English