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The Algiers Motel Incident

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The Algiers Motel Incident

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This volume provides an account of the Algier's Motel incident in 1967, when three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten in the Algiers Motel by, as the author describes it, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen and private guards who had been directed to the scene" following a telephone report of a sniping incident.

Author Biography

John Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his first novel, A Bell for Adano. He is the author of Hiroshima and many novels, including The Wall, The Child Buyer, Under the Eye of the Storm, and Blues. He died in 1993. Thomas Sugrue is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis.
Release date NZ
December 19th, 1997
Author
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Introduction by Thomas J. Sugrue
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
1 Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages
418
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions
140x216x23
ISBN-13
9780801857775
Product ID
2801301

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