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A Nation on Fire Clay Risen

A Nation on Fire par Clay Risen

A Nation on Fire Clay Risen


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Résumé

A few hours after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at a Memphis motel, violent mobs had looted and burned several blocks of Washington a few miles north of the White House, centered around the U Street commercial district. Quick action by D.C.

A Nation on Fire Résumé

A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination Clay Risen

A few hours after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at a Memphis motel, violent mobs had looted and burned several blocks of Washington a few miles north of the White House, centered around the U Street commercial district. Quick action by D.C. police quelled the violence, but shortly before noon the next day, looting and arson broke out anew -- not just along U Street, but in two other commercial districts as well. Over the next several days, the immediate crisis of the riots was matched by an equally ominous sense among the nation's political leadership that they were watching the final dissolution of the 1960s liberal dream. For many whites who watched flames overtake city after city -- Washington, Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City -- the April riots were an unfathomable and deeply troubling response during what should have been a time of national mourning. To them the rioters were little better than common criminals. But a look at the average rioter complicates such conclusions: they were primarily young (under 25) and male, but most made a decent salary, had a better than average education, and had no previous arrest record. In interviews and testimonies afterward, rioters recalled a sense of release, of striking back at the system. To say that the riots meant different things to different people would be exceedingly trite if it weren't also exceedingly true. In ways large and small, the King riots solidified attitudes and trends that destroyed the momentum behind racial progress, fatally wounded postwar domestic liberalism, created new divisions among blacks and whites, and condemned urban America to decades of poverty and crime. This book will explain why they occurred, how they played out, and what they meant.

A Nation on Fire Avis

...Risen provides us with a gripping account of the riots...This is a solid and considerate account of a particular week (Oxford Times, August 6th 2009)

À propos de Clay Risen

Clay Risen, formerly an editor at the New Republic, is the founding managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He's also written for Smithsonian, Slate, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Sommaire

Acknowledgments. Prologue. 1 King, Johnson, and the Terrible, Glorious Thirty-first Day of March. 2 April 4: Before the Bullet. 3 April 4: The News Arrives. 4 April 4: U and Fourteenth. 5 April 5: Midnight Interlude. 6 April 5: Any Man's Death Diminishes Me. 7 April 5: Once That Line Has Been Crossed. 8 April 5: Official Disorder on Top of Civil Disorder. 9 April 5: The Occupation of Washington. 10 April 5: There Are No Ghettos in Chicago. 11 April 6: Roadblocks. 12 April 6: An Eruption in Baltimore. 13 April 7: Palm Sunday. 14 April 8: Bluff City on Edge. 15 April 9: A Country Rent Asunder. 16 April 10 and 11: Two Speeches. 17 A Summer Postscript. 18 1969 and After. Notes. Index.

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GOR007692664
9780470177105
0470177101
A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination Clay Risen
Occasion - Très bon état
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2009-01-02
304
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