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The Algiers Motel Incident
by: John Hersey

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.434
EAN: 9780801857775
ISBN: 0801857775
Label: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 418
Publication Date: November 19, 1997
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Sales Rank: 104406
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press

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'Hersey's book is based on months of personal investigation and contains evidence never before made public. He ransacked every available piece of documentation. Thus armed, he tried to work out a tentative scenario of events and, more important, used his data to build up what may be the truest picture yet of the white policeman's role in the ghettos... His collage of interviews, fact, and intuition... jells into a forceful dossier against racism in the U.S. system of justice.' -- R.A. Sokolov, Newsweek

Thirty years ago, three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in The Algiers Motel Incident, an 'aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen, and private guards who had been directed to the scene.' Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the police group invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten black men and two white women, none of whom were armed, for an hour. By the time the interrogators left, three men had been shot to death and the others, including the women, beaten.

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- A little-known Civil Rights incident -- brilliantly written!
John Hersey is most widely know for his terrific fiction writing in books such as: A Single Pebble. But at the pinnacle of the American Civil Rights movement, in 1968, he came through with an astounding nonfiction detailed summary of the heinous Algiers Motel incident.

The short of the story is that three black men were murdered by Detroit police officers and/or National Guardsmen at the Algiers Hotel during a time of riots in the Motor City. The three victims were Carl Cooper, Aubury Pollard, and Fred Temple. There were plenty of witnesses including a couple of part-time prostitutes from Columbus, Ohio but, when the smoke cleared, no murder charges against the assailants were ever pursued to a logical conclusion.

If there were ever a case of sweeping a case of multiple murders under the rug, this is the poster example. Much of the commentary is follow-up on Hersey's part with the living ... Read More

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- A work of fiction!
As the wife of one of the police officers in the book, I can say that this is pure fiction. Portrayals of the officers involved were backwards. Incidents were recognized strictly by date and location, certainly not actual facts. I lost all respect for Hersey after reading this.

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- Detroit Racism Comes Alive
John Hersey needs no raves from me. At chronicalling the major events of the 20th century in living prose he has absolutely no peer. In this book he focuses in on the entire racist system acting in one chilling incident of the Detroit Riot of 1967, in which the police, trapping several people of mixed ethnicity tortured some of them, murdered others, and could not be brought to justice.

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- The book told the untold truth about what happen that night!
I am the niece of Carl Cooper, and I am glad that John wrote the book! I was told that John may have been killed over the book. The book told the truth about white cops in those days. My grandmother (Carl Cooper's Mother) has never been the same since my uncle's death. When he died it took apart of her that she will never beable to regain.

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