Cameron McWhirter
Auteur de Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
A propos de l'auteur
Cameron McWhirter is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was awarded a Nieman Foundation Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard in 2007. He lives outside Atlanta, Georgia.
Œuvres de Cameron McWhirter
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 Rifle 2 exemplaires
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American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 par Cameron McWhirter
Awful, we suck, I hope everyone who spends their creativity building weapons goes to hell. Its so overwhelming and terrible to hear the narrator say "it was the worst shooting in american history, until x, until y", literally every other paragraph. This country chose guns over children, and you cannot tell me any of this country's right wing/pro lifers care about anything but death, when confronted with such vileness.
Not an easy read, but so glad I found it.
(don't remember what pointed me to this book, that I had to get thru interlibrary)
There's some difficult gore, made most difficult due to the horror of how humans can treat one another. I know this is factual, but found it extremely difficult to comprehend the inhumanity of whites and white crowds brutally torturing and killing fellow humans simply because of their black skin color.
Maybe today's brutalities aren't so unusual after all; while we hear more about it, yet not as brutal as these events.
And this was in 1919 - LESS THAN 100 years ago.
My Grandparents were youngsters, my nearest & dearest friend was born less than 10 years later.
Takes your breath away to think about it.
Also a bit difficult to follow all the individuals traced as the founders of organizations and the many individuals involved in attempting to make the necessary changes. Well written, but there are a lot of facts to follow.
Read through to the very end - Interesting twist brings a conclusion of sorts to the opening story of one of the first events that started the bloodshed of 1919.… (plus d'informations)
(don't remember what pointed me to this book, that I had to get thru interlibrary)
There's some difficult gore, made most difficult due to the horror of how humans can treat one another. I know this is factual, but found it extremely difficult to comprehend the inhumanity of whites and white crowds brutally torturing and killing fellow humans simply because of their black skin color.
Maybe today's brutalities aren't so unusual after all; while we hear more about it, yet not as brutal as these events.
And this was in 1919 - LESS THAN 100 years ago.
My Grandparents were youngsters, my nearest & dearest friend was born less than 10 years later.
Takes your breath away to think about it.
Also a bit difficult to follow all the individuals traced as the founders of organizations and the many individuals involved in attempting to make the necessary changes. Well written, but there are a lot of facts to follow.
Read through to the very end - Interesting twist brings a conclusion of sorts to the opening story of one of the first events that started the bloodshed of 1919.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 231
- Popularité
- #97,643
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 7