Soiling of Old Glory The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America

Name: Soiling of Old Glory The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
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ISBN: 9781596916005

ISBN-10: 1596916001

ISBN-13: 9781596916005

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Authors: Louis P. Masur

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Sometimes a moment can change history. This one took 1/250th of a second. Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman hurried to City Hall to photograph that day's protest, arriving just in time to snap the image that his editor would title "The Soiling of Old Glory." T he photo made headlines across the United States and won Forman his second Pulitzer Prize. I t shocked Boston, and America: Racial strife had not ended with the 1960s, it was alive and well in the cradle of liberty. Louis P. Masur's evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image in a tour de force of historical writing.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 1/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Louis P.Masur, a professor of history at the City University of New York and the editor of Reviews in American History, is the author of Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865. He lives in New Jersey.