| Description |
xvii, 724 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-684) and index |
| Notes |
Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, 2017 |
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Finalist, National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Subject |
Attica Prison.
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Prison riots -- New York (State)
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| LC no. |
2016000477 |
| ISBN |
9780375423222 (hardback) |
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0375423222 (hardback) |
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