Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy / Heather Ann Thompson.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 724 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780375423222 (hardback)
  • 0375423222 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV 9475 .N716 T46 2016
Contents:
Introduction: State secrets -- The tinderbox: Frank "Big Black" Smith -- Power and politics unleashed: Michael Smith -- The sound before the fury: Tom Wicker -- Retribution and reprisals unimagined: Tony Strollo -- Reckonings and reactions: Robert Douglass -- Inquiries and diversions: Anthony Simonetti -- Justice on trial: Ernest Goodman -- Blowing the whistle: Malcolm Bell -- David and Goliath: Elizabeth Fink -- A final fight: Deanne Quinn Miller.
Awards:
  • Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, 2017
  • Finalist, National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016
Summary: "Historian Heather Ann Thompson offers the first definitive telling of the Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice--in time for the forty-fifth anniversary of the events"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-684) and index.

"Historian Heather Ann Thompson offers the first definitive telling of the Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice--in time for the forty-fifth anniversary of the events"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: State secrets -- The tinderbox: Frank "Big Black" Smith -- Power and politics unleashed: Michael Smith -- The sound before the fury: Tom Wicker -- Retribution and reprisals unimagined: Tony Strollo -- Reckonings and reactions: Robert Douglass -- Inquiries and diversions: Anthony Simonetti -- Justice on trial: Ernest Goodman -- Blowing the whistle: Malcolm Bell -- David and Goliath: Elizabeth Fink -- A final fight: Deanne Quinn Miller.

Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, 2017

Finalist, National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016

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