Revised and reissued with a new epilogue, the award-winning classic Ghosts of Mississippi tells the inside story of one of the most rankling murder cases of the civil rights era. In this historical page-turner, National Book Award finalist Maryanne Vollers exposes a stateOCOs struggle to confront the ghosts of its violent past in order to bring a killer to justice. The civil rights movement was just catching fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle ...
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Revised and reissued with a new epilogue, the award-winning classic Ghosts of Mississippi tells the inside story of one of the most rankling murder cases of the civil rights era. In this historical page-turner, National Book Award finalist Maryanne Vollers exposes a stateOCOs struggle to confront the ghosts of its violent past in order to bring a killer to justice. The civil rights movement was just catching fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle across the street from NAACP leader Medgar EversOCOs house and shot him in the back. Three trials and thirty years later, a jury convicted Beckwith of murder and sent him to prison for life. Drawing on her rare access to the prosecutors, the Evers family and Beckwith himself, Vollers recreates the events of EversOCOs life and death, weaving together a thrilling tale of racism, murder, courage, redemption, and the ultimate triumph of justice. In a new epilogue, written on the fiftieth anniversary of EversOCOs assassination, Vollers updates the main characters and examines efforts over the past two decades to bring more unpunished killers to trial. Her verdict: The ghosts of Mississippi are still restless."
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, "mayflower cafe p. 232" written flyleaf, remainder mark, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Little Brown & Co., 1995. First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Handsome burgundy and black binding with white titles to spine; tight, solid and square with sharp corners. Internals pristine. 411 pages. Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.4 inches. 1995, Little Brown & Co.
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Very Good. 0316914851. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Little, Brown and Co. in 1995. Front endpaper has the name of a previous owner written at top. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Large 8vo, 411 pages, 1.5 lb.; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 411 pages; Signed by Author.
