Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

720 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced

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The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth a...

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