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Overview"From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit. On the evening of July 25, 1967, on the third night of the 12th Street Riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel. Acting on a report of gunfire, officers rounded up the occupants of the motel's annex—several black men and two white women—and proceeded to beat them and repeatedly threaten to kill them. By the end of the night, three of the men were dead. Three police officers and a private security guard were tried for their deaths; none were convicted. In The Algiers Motel Incident, first published in 1968, Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Hersey strings together interviews, police reports, court testimony, and news stories to recount the terrible events of that night. The result is chaotic and sometimes confusing; facts remain elusive. But, Hersey concludes, the truth is clear: three young black men were murdered ""for being, all in all, black young men and part of the black rage of the time."" With a new foreword by award-winning author Danielle L. McGuire, The Algiers Motel Incident is a powerful indictment of racism and the US justice system." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Hersey , Danielle L. McGuirePublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781421432977ISBN 10: 1421432978 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 05 November 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword: Danielle L. McGuire Introduction: John Hersey and the Tragedy of Race Part I: The Odor of a Case July 26–31 1. Do You Hate the Police? 2. A Dangerous Account 3. Too Hot to Handle Part II: Three Cops and Three Days July 23–5 4. The First Day 5. Snake 6. The Second Day 7. An Out-of-Doors Man 8. The Third Day 9. Quiet and Respectable 10. An Alarm of Snipers Part III: Auburey and His Circle 11. The Fork in the Road Part IV: Confession July 31 12. Could You Get My Statement Back? Part V: The Algiers Motel Incident July 25—6 13. The Snipers 14. A Game of Chess 15. Man, They're Going to Shoot 16. How to Attack a Building 17. Everybody Downstairs! 18. Phone Calls 19. Enter and Exit: State Police 20. Conduct Becoming an Officer 21. Up and Down the Line 22. Just in Time to Pray 23. Enter Warrant Officer Thomas 24. Interrogations 25. The Knife Game 26. Skin Show 27. The Death Game 28. The Death Game Played Out 29. Out Part VI: Aftermath July 31 and after 30. A Matter for Investigation 31. First Man in Court 32. First Man in Court 33. Senak's Peninsula 34. These Are Not Little Boys 35. The Law Was Made by People 36. Law and Order for All? 37. Under Indictment 38. A Mother Speaks 39. The Net Is Thrown Again 40. Snipers: The Myth 41. Fuel for the Fire Next Time 42. Harassment? 43. The Paille Appeal 44. A Numbness 45. Conspiracy? 46. Padlocking 47. A Cutting 48. A Winter of Waiting 49. Three Men at Work 50. The Legal Maze 51. Last Words 52. What Is Wrong with the Country?ReviewsInviting and justifying comparisons with Hiroshima, this is Hersey's cauterizing exemplification of the 'most intransigent and fear ridden issue in American life' via the Algiers Motel incident, the wanton murders of three alleged 'snipers' and attendant sexual abuses by the police, during the Detroit riot. Many issues and many people are involved here and with as relentless a glare as the dome light on a police car, Hersey zeroes in on them. There are many 'hurting feeling[s]' here which involve the reader, just as it has Hersey, and certainly there will be many who will be reached who might not be otherwise. The 'incident' however has been handled in such a fashion that it provides all the sociodynamics of the racial thunderhead--an intense, intensive documentary. --Kirkus Reviews Hersey's book is based on months of personal investigation and contains evidence never before made public. He ransacked every available piece of documentation. Thus armed, he tried to work out a tentative scenario of events and, more important, used his data to build up what may be the truest picture yet of the white policeman's role in the ghettos... His collage of interviews, fact, and intuition... jells into a forceful dossier against racism in the U.S. system of justice. --Newsweek This is a brilliant book, a tour de force. --American Sociological Review Hersey's extremely careful and cogent account of the Algiers Motel incident does not suggest that [the law enforcement officers involved] conspired to do anything... It suggests strongly the contrary: that they were doing what came naturally to them, and doing it with gusto. --New York Review of Books [The Algiers Motel Incident] demonstrates [Hersey's] astonishing talent for eliciting oral history and forensically reconstructing the experiences of people who have endured a major disaster. -- Nicholas Lemann * The New Yoker * Author InformationJohn Hersey (1914–1993), the author of the bestselling Hiroshima, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his first novel, A Bell for Adano. His numerous other works of nonfiction and fiction include The Wall, Blues, and The Child Buyer. Historian Danielle L. McGuire is an independent scholar and the author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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