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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice.“Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us understand why this one group of prisoners [rebelled], and how many others shared the cost.” —The New York Times On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men—hostages as well as prisoners—and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors and the families of the men who had been killed.   Drawing from more than a decade of extensive research, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on every aspect of the uprising and its legacy, giving voice to all those who took part in this forty-five-year fight for justice: prisoners, former hostages, families of the victims, lawyers and judges, and state officials and members of law enforcement. Blood in the Water is the searing and indelible account of one of the most important civil rights stories of the last century.(With black-and-white photos throughout)

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This was a good book and a book that needed to be written and needed to be read. Unfortunately, the book suffers too much from the author's bias. I'm very liberal, but by the end of the book even I was rolling my eyes at the author's heart bleeding all over the pages. Look, were atrocities committed at Attica? - Undoubtably. Was there a cover up? - Certainly. Even after almost 50 years should there be a reckoning? - I think so. However, the author hopelessly glosses over the fact that a majority of these inmates were evil, hardened criminals. Sure, as she points out, there were a select few that were incarcerated for petty or racially motivated crimes, but Attica was where NYC stored its most violent, brutal offenders. Yet, every prisoner the author profiles is reformed, or was just caught up in circumstance. One inmate, convicted of two murders and arson (among other murders and crimes) in what amounts to a cross-state killing spree, has learned the error of his ways and is held up as a shining light with whom all of us should sympathize. The glossing over happens more than a few times - the profile goes into great deal how the prisoner was mistreated, page after page of atrocities, and when the author even bothers to fill us in on the offense that got the inmate locked up, its a few lines of glossed over text. The author would have you think the riot at Attica was just the work of a pesky, well meaning Boy Scout Troop. Now, did the inmates at Attica deserve to be gunned down in cold blood by a bunch of gun crazy cops? Absolutely not. However, the reason I will never be shot by a murdering Corrections Officer is that I am not a violent felon. Added to this, the author makes a point to describe how handsome or powerfully built some of the prisoners are; a distinction she doesn't share when profiling attorneys, cops, politicians, or others in the book, and it comes off as creepy.So the book is a good read, and raises some important question, but the outrage pouring off the pages gets tiresome after a few hundred pages.

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