- Published: 19 November 2018
- ISBN: 9780753548691
- Imprint: WH Allen
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $32.99
I Can't Breathe
The Killing that Started a Movement
- Published: 19 November 2018
- ISBN: 9780753548691
- Imprint: WH Allen
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $32.99
One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism
Independent
Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power
Bernie Sanders
Matt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America
Felix Salmon
Matt Taibbi is [Hunter S.] Thompson’s heir. . .
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Taibbi may be the only political writer in America that matters
Hartford Advocate
[A] searing exposé … what emerges from the author's superb reporting and vivid writing is a tragically revealing look at a broken criminal justice system
Kirkus Review (STARRED REVIEW)
Richly reported and evocative ... The result here is a vivid folk history that should prove useful to anyone who seeks to understand the world Eric Garner inhabited
Jill Leovy, bestselling author of GHETTOSIDE
A complex and textured examination of the complicated personalities, flawed legal system, and politics revolving around the police killing of 43-year-old Eric Garner, whose final words became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Boston Globe (listed in 'Must Read Books for the Fall')
Marries the best instincts of explanatory narrative journalism with uncompromising moral clarity ... a vital account of police violence. Taibbi, through thorough reporting and captivating writing, captures the totality of an American tragedy
Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of THEY CAN'T KILL US ALL: THE STORY OF BLACK LIVES MATTER
[A] brilliant work of narrative nonfiction ... a necessary and riveting work
Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
What Matt Taibbi does most beautifully, most necessarily, is he gives Eric Garner that thing the police who choked him to death that day -- and much of the media as well -- denied this man: His humanity. Through impeccable reporting, Taibbi reveals to us, finally, Eric Garner the man, the father, the lover, the friend.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning correspondent, The New York Times Magazine
An engrossing and provocative exploration of the many people, systems, and forces that helped to kill Eric Garner and all those who struggled in vain for justice to be done
Michelle Alexander, bestselling author of THE NEW JIM CROW
A must-read for anyone interested in what gets excused in the name of 'law and order' ... an insightful, important account
Library Journal
The narrative unfolds like an episode of The Wire. . . . Heartbreaking and compulsively readable
Washington Post