Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (995 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199794456 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 327 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sharon Davies is the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law at the Ohio State University.
"Extraordinary and Moving Tale" according to Middle-aged Professor. Rising Road takes one of the first "trials of the century," the murder of a catholic priest in 1920's Birmingham, Alabama, and brings it vividly to life. Like the best works in this nonfiction genre, such as Arc of Justice or Seabiscuit, the author turns what must have been painstaking historical research into a page-turning narrative that places us in the United States of 100 years ago in fully realized detail. What is so wonderful about this book are the combina. "Rising Road gives you a slice of time" according to Note Taker. My first thought after reading Ms. Davies Rising Road was "I can't wait for her next book." As an academic librarian, with an interest in history, sociology, anthropology and politics, I have read many non-fiction works written for the academic scholar. What a pleasure it was to find myself reading a page-turner that was both informative and entertaining. I especially enjoyed it when Ms. Davies interjected witty editorial comments into the narration. They acted to. Rising Road This is a beautifully written book that captures your attention from the very first page. Although it's a true story it reads more like a novel, with the same sort of page-turning excitement as the story builds. I generally don't like non-fiction but this was a fascinating book. The author manages to convey the sense of time and place so well that I could see this as a movie in my mind.
(Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Since it takes place in 1921 Birmingham, Ala., the story's likely to involve race, gender relations, family authority, and religion, and not to be pretty. When all is over, the murderer, a white Protestant, goes free after killing a Catholic priest and expressing, like most in the courtroom, just about every vulgar prejudice of the day. Davies, a professor of law at Ohio State, knows her way through the thickets of criminal proceedings and the ways of adversarial attorneys. One of the defense lawyers is none other than Hugo Black, later a Supreme Court J
Rising Road is a history so powerful, so compelling it stays with you long after you've finished its final page."--Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice"This gripping historyhas all the makings of a Hollywood movie. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Placing the story in social and historical context, Davies brings this heinous crime and its aftermath back to life, in a brilliant and engrossing examination of the wages of prejudice and a trial that shook the nation at the height of Jim Crow. Drama aside, Rising Road also happens to be a fine work of history." --History News Network. "Davies takes us deep into the dark heart of the Jim Crow South, where she uncovers a searing story of love, faith, bigotry and violence. It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. In one o