Heather Ann Thompson: 2 books
Whose Detroit?
Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the...
Blood in the Water
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
**WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
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