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Author Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- author.

Title Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy / Heather Ann Thompson.

Publisher New York : Pantheon, c2016.

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 Superior adult nonfiction  365.9747 T373b    AVAILABLE
Descript xvii, 724 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Nonfiction.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-684) and index.
Contents The tinderbox: Frank "Big Black" Smith -- Power and politics unleashed: Michael Smith -- The sound before the fury: Tom Wicker -- Retribution and reprisals unimagined: Tony Strollo -- Reckonings and reactions: Robert Douglass -- Inquiries and diversions: Anthony Simonetti -- Justice on trial: Ernest Goodman -- Blowing the whistle: Malcolm Bell -- David and Goliath: Elizabeth Fink -- A final fight: Deanne Quinn Miller.
Summary "Historian Heather Ann Thompson offers the first definitive telling of the Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice--in time for the forty-fifth anniversary of the events"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Prison riots -- New York (State)
Attica Prison.
ISBN/ISSN 0374523222
9780375423222
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