Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061792281 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061792284 |
| Title | Devil in the Grove |
| Author | Gilbert King |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2012-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Nonfiction) 2013, Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2013, Commended for Florida Book Award (Florida Nonfiction) 2013, Commended for Chautauqua Prize 2013, Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 2013 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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