A review by lindseycrouch
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski

4.0

I got this book free from NetGalley and overall I liked it. I really liked the background on Ida B. Wells and her anti-lynching work, and I like a true crime story that has a sneaky big impact on history. My only complaint is that it was a little shallow. It talks about a lot of things, and all of them are interesting but it didn't really tackle any of them in a really meaningful way. For example, it says right in the subtitle that it's about the beginnings of the NAACP and that's true, but the NAACP is hardly mentioned and he has to explain in the last chapter why Ida B. Wells and this murder were key in the beginnings of the NAACP, which felt a little sloppy because for being a key element it should have been way more obvious.