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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

byHeather Ann Thompson

Heather Ann Thompson uses Blood in the Water to investigate the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy through a carefully framed historical account. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of history and law. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Vintage

Publication date

Aug 22, 2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

752

ISBN

9781400078240