- Published: 31 May 2011
- ISBN: 9780143119432
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 392
- RRP: $45.00
Freedom Summer
The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
- Published: 31 May 2011
- ISBN: 9780143119432
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 392
- RRP: $45.00
"Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post "Remarkable...a well-researched, vivid retelling of the 1964 civil rights crusade to put Mississippi's 200,000 disenfranchised blacks on the voting rolls...[an] important book." -San Francisco Chronicle "Elegantly written...A fascinating look at ordinary people at their best and worst...Riveting." -Richmond Times-Dispatch "An amazing account of one pivotal summer in the history of civil rights...with a thriller's pacing, the book forcefully describes the depravity and treachery behind the bombings, beatings and intimidation...and shows the physical and emotional costs of such a fight." -The Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Engrossing" -The Economist