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Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt - Hardcover

Olsen, Jack

 
9780385493673: Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385493673 ISBN 13: 9780385493673
Verlag: Doubleday, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Describes the twenty-seven-year battle to vindicate Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt, a Vietnam veteran and Black Panther Party leader convicted in a trumped-up case of murder, in an intriguing study of government conspiracy and judicial abuse. 25,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jack Olsen is the author of thirty-one books and the winner of many awards, including the Edgar and the National Headliners Awards. A former bureau chief for Time, he has written for Vanity Fair, Life, People, Paris Match, the New York Times, and Reader's Digest. He lives on an island in Washington's Puget Sound with his wife and children.

Aus dem Klappentext

c scope of A Civil Action, Last Man Standing is an unforgettable chronicle of the twenty-seven-year struggle to break a conspiratorial abuse of power and free one of America's most famous political prisoners.

In 1968, twenty-year-old Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals and a Purple Heart into the most heated racial climate in American history. Taking advantage of the G.I. Bill, Pratt enrolled at UCLA, where the Black Panther Party was busy recruiting. Propelled by a diverse group of African Americans, the Panther agenda was a volatile mix of black rage, black pride, altruism, idealism, and violence. Under the charismatic leadership of Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Bunchy Carter, Pratt rose to the rank of Deputy Minister of Defense and became leader of the Los Angeles Chapter. The Panthers did not go unnoticed by J. Edgar Hoover. In the era of enemies' lists, his FBI drew up its own list of

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385493673
ISBN 13 
9780385493673
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
500
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