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Devil in the Grove de Gilbert King

Devil in the Grove

Autor Gilbert King
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2020

Publicat în format paperback de Harper Perennial, volumul premiat cu Pulitzer al lui Gilbert King reprezintă o lucrare de referință pentru istoria drepturilor civile din SUA. Această ediție aduce în prim-plan o cercetare exhaustivă, bazată pe documente FBI anterior clasificate și acces fără precedent la fișierele NAACP, oferind o perspectivă documentată asupra violenței sistemice din Florida anului 1949. Remarcăm modul în care autorul reconstruiește cazul „Groveland Boys” — patru tineri de culoare acuzați pe nedrept de viol — sub teroarea impusă de șeriful Willis V. McCall și de Ku Klux Klan. Devil in the Grove extinde cadrul biografic propus de Thurgood Marshall de Glenn L. Starks cu date noi din teren, mutând accentul de pe teoria juridică pe pericolele fizice imediate înfruntate de Marshall în sudul segregaționist. Dacă lucrări precum Young Thurgood explorează formarea magistratului, King plasează cititorul în mijlocul „Terorii din Florida”, un episod care aproape i-a curmat viața viitorului judecător al Curții Supreme înainte de victoria istorică în cazul Brown v. Board of Education. Această lucrare consolidează direcția de cercetare a lui Gilbert King începută cu The Execution of Willie Francis și continuată ulterior în Bone Valley, explorând temele injustiției rasiale și ale corupției judiciare în inima Americii rurale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780061792267
ISBN-10: 0061792268
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Harper Perennial

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie juridică și drepturile omului. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a riscurilor personale asumate de Thurgood Marshall și a mecanismelor de opresiune din epoca Jim Crow. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege fundamentele mișcării pentru drepturi civile, documentată cu rigoare academică, dar scrisă cu dinamismul unui roman polițist bazat pe fapte reale.

Despre autor

Gilbert King este un autor american distins cu Premiul Pulitzer, recunoscut pentru expertiza sa în istoria Curții Supreme a SUA și a drepturilor civile. A contribuit constant cu editoriale pentru publicații de prestigiu precum New York Times și Washington Post, fiind totodată un colaborator important al revistei Smithsonian. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Bone Valley și The Execution of Willie Francis, se concentrează pe investigarea erorilor judiciare și a tensiunilor rasiale din Sudul american, King fiind apreciat pentru abilitatea de a scoate la lumină arhive ignorate. În prezent, locuiește în New York City.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys."
Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him.
Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.

Recenzii

“This story about four young black men who were accused of the rape of a white woman in Lake County, Fla., in 1949 — and what the local sheriff and his cronies, who were itching for a lynching, got away with — is a must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times
“A powerful and well-told drama of Southern injustice.” — Chicago Tribune
“A compelling look at the case that forged Thurgood Marshall’s perception of himself as a crusader for civil rights. . . . King’s style [is] at once suspenseful and historically meticulous” — Christian Science Monitor
“After reading Gilbert King’s excellent book on a little known and horrifying incident in which four young black men were rounded up and accused of raping a white woman, readers cannot help but be awed by the bravery of those who took a stand in the late 1940s and early 1950s.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Superb.” — Junot Diaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her
“Recreates an important yet overlooked moment in American history with a chilling, atmospheric narrative that reads more like a Southern Gothic novel than a work of history.” — Salon
“A taut, intensely readable narrative.” — Boston Globe
“The story’s drama and pathos make it a page-turner, but King’s attention to detail, fresh material, and evenhanded treatment of the villains make it a worthy contribution to the history of the period, while offering valuable insight into Marshall’s work and life.” — Publishers Weekly
“A thoroughgoing study of one of the most important civil-rights cases argued by Thurgood Marshall in dismantling Jim Crow strictures. . . . Deeply researched and superbly composed.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A compelling chronicle.” — Booklist
“Gripping. . . . Lively and multidimensional.” — Dallas Morning News
“The tragic Groveland saga -- with its Faulknerian echoes of racial injustice spinning around an accusation of rape -- comes astonishingly alive in Gilbert King’s narrative. It is both heartbreaking and unforgettable.” — Wil Haygood, author of King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
“In the terrifying story of the Groveland boys Gilbert King recreates an extraordinary moment in America’s long, hard struggle for racial justice. Devil in the Grove is a harrowing, haunting, utterly mesmerizing book.” — Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
“Gilbert King’s gut-wrenching, and captivating, narrative is civil rights literature at its best--meticulously researched, brilliantly written, and singularly focused on equal justice for all.” — Michael G. Long, author of Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall
“This is a haunting and compelling story, one of many in the campaign for racial justice. . . . This book is important because it is disturbing. And in that regard we cannot walk away from the story it tells.” — Phyllis Vine, author of One Man's Castle
“Gilbert King has done a remarkable job of weaving together history, sociology, law and detective work of his own, to reveal facts that even I, one of the defense counsel in the case, had not been aware of until now.” — Jack Greenberg, Alphonse Fletcher Professor of Law, Columbia University, former Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
“Its rich case history captures the beginning of the end of the most extreme forms of racism. . . . Very few books combine this depth of research and narrative power about a subject of such pivotal significance.” — Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White and a former president of the American Political Science Association