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Product Identifiers
PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100812904877
ISBN-139780812904871
eBay Product ID (ePID)1533799
Product Key Features
TopicPenology
Book TitleTime to Die : the Attica Prison Revolt
Publication Year1980
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreSocial Science
AuthorTom Wicker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight20 oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN74-077947
Dewey Edition18
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal365/.9747/93
SynopsisIN 1971 , the inmates of Attica revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. The rebels demanded -- and were granted -- the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators. Tom Wicker, then the Associate Editor of the New York Times , was one of those summoned. This is his account.
Fine literary piece written before journalism became a fraud
Exposes truth surrounding the 1971 Attica prison riot, followed shortly thereafter by the unnecessary armed State Police/Correction Officer riot, and is a compelling lead-in to the blatant governmental cover-up exposed by Malcolm Bell in his equally engrossing The Attica Turkey Shoot....