A gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law, Devil in the Grove brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never seen before. As Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns did for the story of America’s black migration, Gilbert King’s Devil in the Grove does for this great untold story of American legal history, a dangerous and uncertain case from the days immediately before Brown v. Board of Education in which the young civil rights attorney Marshall risked his life to defend a boy slated for the electric chair—saving him, against all odds, from being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.
Gilbert King Boeken
Gilbert Anthony King is een Amerikaanse schrijver en fotograaf wiens werken worden gekenmerkt door een diepe interesse in historische gebeurtenissen. Met zijn schrijven beoogt hij vergeten verhalen en figuren aan het licht te brengen die ons verleden hebben gevormd. Zijn stijl is scherpzinnig en toch toegankelijk, waardoor lezers met een frisse blik naar cruciale momenten in de geschiedenis kunnen kijken. King's benadering combineert nauwgezet onderzoek met een artistiek gevoel voor verhalen.
City In Time New York
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From the Bronx to the Battery and beyond, New York is a wonderful town?and one that was centuries in the making. With the Statue of Liberty raising her torch high, it became the shining symbol of a promised land for immigrants throughout the world. Follow the city’s growth, and look at her buildings old and new, from Trinity Church to today’s glass and steel skyscrapers. The trip passes through Ellis Island, first stop for many new Americans; Battery Park City, where Castle Clinton still stands; Hester Street, once filled with peddlers selling their wares; the original and new Penn Stations and Madison Square Gardens; and more. Sidebars look in depth at such New York attractions as the subway.