The Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea
The True Account of a Police Murder of an Innocent Black Child
$39.50
- Paperback
284 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2017
Summary
The true story behind Audre Lorde’s 1975 poem “Power”–a masterly, gripping and true account of the tragedy of the early-morning shooting of a child and the trial of a policeman for murder that followed. Was it a case of mistaken identity or race hatred–or both?It happened on the morning of Saturday, April 28, 1973, in Queens, New York, at around 5-00 a.m. In the pre-dawn dark, ten-year-old Clifford Glover was walking with his stepfather, Add Armstead, toward the auto salvage yard where Armste…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609807313 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1609807316 |
| Author: | Thomas Hauser |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 284 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Hauser
THOMAS HAUSER is a New York City author. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, he clerked for a United States district judge before beginning a five-year stint as a litigator on Wall Street in 1971. In 1977, he began to write, and since then he has penned 45 books on everything from professional boxing to Beeethoven. His first book, Missing (1982), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award, and inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon. He is arguably best known for his biography of Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali- Life and Times (1992), which is considered by many to be the definitive book on the subject. He has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York magazine, and many other publications. His most recent book is The Baker’s Tale- Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens, published in 2015.
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