Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by King, Gilbert
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by King, Gilbert

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his...
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Author: Gilbert King
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by King, Gilbert

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

$40.00
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by King, Gilbert

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

$40.00
Author: Gilbert King
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags. --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a husky Negro did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked away without trial.

But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies. Bit by bit, the unspeakable truths behind a conspiracy that shocked a community into silence begin to surface.

Beneath a Ruthless Sun tells a powerful, page-turning story rooted in the fears that rippled through the South as integration began to take hold, sparking a surge of virulent racism that savaged the vulnerable, debased the powerful, and roils our own times still.

Author: Gilbert King
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780399183423

About the Author
Gilbert King was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction for The Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, which was also a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A featured contributor to Smithsonian magazine and The Marshall Project, King also writes about justice for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He lives in New York City.
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