Overview
A true southern tale of racism, murder, and taboo sex.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Hutto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Globe Pequot Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.10cm
Weight: 0.023kg
ISBN: 9780762772384
ISBN 10: 0762772387
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 18 October 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A Peculiar Tribe of People is the sort of true crime that has wings... This is one of those stories that, in many ways, truly is stranger than fiction. I simply could not put it down. -- January magazine, naming A Peculiar Tribe one of the twelve best non-fiction books of 2010 A southern grotesque that comes complete with stately mansions, murder most vile, forbidden sex, a pot-boiling trial and a denouement worthy of a Greek tragedy... But wait, there's more! After being acquitted of murder, but convicted of sodomy and somehow finding another wife (18 years his senior), Burge stumbled into an ending that even Sophocles wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. --Bo Emerson, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Rick Hutto's book--a fascinating tale of murder and deception--provides a sobering glimpse into the prejudices and corruption of pre-civil rights Georgia. --President Jimmy Carter Hutto's book is a remarkable chronicle of Deep South scumbaggery... presented with all the insanity an
A Peculiar Tribe of People is the sort of true crime that has wings... This is one of those stories that, in many ways, truly is stranger than fiction. I simply could not put it down. -- January magazine, naming A Peculiar Tribe one of the twelve best nonfiction books of 2010 A southern grotesque that comes complete with stately mansions, murder most vile, forbidden sex, a pot-boiling trial and a denouement worthy of a Greek tragedy... But wait, there's more! After being acquitted of murder, but convicted of sodomy and somehow finding another wife (18 years his senior), Burge stumbled into an ending that even Sophocles wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. --Bo Emerson, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Rick Hutto's book--a fascinating tale of murder and deception--provides a sobering glimpse into the prejudices and corruption of pre-civil rights Georgia. --President Jimmy Carter Hutto's book is a remarkable chronicle of Deep South scumbaggery... presented with all the insanity and
Author Information
Richard Jay Hutto is the author of Entitled: American Women, Titled Husbands, and the Pursuit of Excess, Crowning Glory: American Wives of Princes and Dukes, and Their Gilded Cage: The Jekyll Island Club Members. Formerly the White House Appointments Secretary to the Carter family and the chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts.
