William F. Pepper
Auteur de An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
A propos de l'auteur
William F. Pepper, is an English barrister and an American lawyer. He practices international human rights law from the United States and from London. He has represented governments and heads of state and is the author of four other books and numerous articles.
Œuvres de William F. Pepper
The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (2016) — Auteur — 38 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pepper, William Francis
- Date de naissance
- 1937-08-16
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 237
- Popularité
- #95,614
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 23
- Langues
- 2
Pepper’s garbled prose sometimes makes it hard to know what he is claiming. For a lawyer, there is a surprising sloppiness and inattention to detail (his editor and publisher share the blame) and his attempts to write narrative prose are inept.
He inflates the potential of the Poor People’s Campaign that King was organizing in 1968 and ignores the many significant challenges to King’s leadership that he was facing at the end of his life in what seems to be an attempt to make his theory more plausible.
His very alarmist 2008 afterword is also sloppy; e.g. it calls the 2002 Maher Arar case, which surfaced in late 2003 “the most famous recent case” of rendition and ignores the substantial pushback that has occurred.
However, Pepper has pursued this case with great courage and deserves the gratitude of citizens.… (plus d'informations)