Boilermaker

The boilermaker: by akbar del piombo, with collages by norman rubington, New York, Citadel 1961

o.S., Obrosch., EA, gutes Ex.

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Greene, Melissa Fay: Praying for Sheetrock, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Addison - Wesley Publishing Co. 1991
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This is the ADVANCE READING COPY, an early, highly collectible state of the book. It is in collector's condition--bright, fresh and clean. As the first black commissioner of McIntosh County, Ga., retired boilermaker Thurnell Alston brought the civil rights struggle to a coastal backwater in the 1970s. He initiated voting rights lawsuits, fought drugs and introduced medical clinics, plumbing and running water to "a forgotten county needy in every way." A threat to corrupt Sheriff Tom Popell, who ruled the county as his fiefdom, Alston challenged the "good old boy" patronage system. But the irascible commissioner became increasingly distanced from his constituency and, after his youngest son's tragic death in 1983, he neglected his wife and children in escapist pursuits. The target of a government sting operation, he was convicted of drug conspiracy charges in 1988 and sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison camp, where he remains. By turns inspiring and sad, his story is told with dramatic skill by Atlanta journalist Greene. Advance Reading Copy Soft Cover

[SW: POLITICAL CORRUPTION GEORGIA POLITICS GOVERNMENT]

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