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Scottsboro
One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. While the NAACP and the Communist Party vie to save the boys lives and make political hay, and a wily criminal lawyer renowned for defending underworld characters battles age-old prejudices, a young journalist fights to rescue the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past Intertwining historical actors with fictional characters and stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism in an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a case and a cause that roiled the nation for almost half a century. No crime in American history, let alone a crime that never occurred, resulted in as many trials, convictions, reversals, and seminal Supreme Court decisions. It destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the best and the worst in the men and women who fought for the cause. "
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: May 1st, 2009
- Pages: 378
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780393333527
- Categories: • Historical - General
About the Author
Feldman, Ellen: - Ellen Feldman is the author of the novels Lucy and The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank. She writes for the American Heritage Web site and is a sought-after speaker. She lives in New York.
Praise for this book
The Scottsboro case is the novel's core . . . all distilled, with great subtlety and wit, into a story worth retelling and remembering.-- "Boston Sunday Globe"
With a pure sense of storytelling, a deft hand at characterization and a stylish and sensitive use of language, Feldman has created another affecting portrait of the past.-- "Richmond Times-Dispatch"
Inspired and inspiring. . . . Ruby is a gem of a character, and belongs with the best of William Faulkner's, or Alice Walker's, women.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"