True Crime Book - Ghosts of Mississippi by Maryanne Vollers in BRISBANE, Queensland for sale

Title: Ghosts of Mississippi
Author: Maryanne Vollers
Year: 1995
Cover: Paperback
Details: Fair used condition, the cover has a bend to it and there is some dog-earing on the corners. National Book Award finalist. 420 pages, no images. RRP $13.95 FPT
Blurb: ?Vivid?A haunting book. By isolating a small piece of the civil rights movement, Vollers has made the entire story more accessible and compelling.? - San Francisco Chronicle. The civil rights movement was just beginning to catch fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle across the street from NAACP leader Medgar Evers?s house and shot him in the back. Three trials and thirty years later, a jury convicted Beckwith of murder and sent him to prison for life, finally concluding one of the most rankling cases of the civil rights era. In Ghosts of Mississippi, journalist Maryanne Vollers tells the inside story of that state?s struggle to confront the ghosts of its violent past in order to bring a killer to justice, weaving a compelling narrative that captures the journey from the old South to the new. Drawing on her rare access to prosecutors, Evers?s family, and Beckwith himself, Vollers re-creates the events of Evers?s life and death, while bringing to light new facts and insights into the assassination case and the conspiracy theories that surround it. The result is a thrilling tale of racism, murder, courage, redemption, and the ultimate triumph of justice. ?Vollers chronicles the social change that transformed the Deep South from a place where blacks could not vote and lynchings went unpunished to one where laws apply equally to all citizens.? - People. ?Ghosts of Mississippi is an eerily eternal, distinctly American story of race and region, heritage past and present. In observing the passing of a proud generation and the forgetfulness of the next, it is both wise and somber.? - Virginian Pilot - Ledger Star.
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