No Heroes No Villains

Author : Steven J. Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030743446X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Heroes, No Villains written by Steven J. Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his hands up. Richardson had a gun, and the two exchanged shots. In the melee that followed, Skagen was fatally wounded by a cop who rushed to the scene. In the ensuing trial, William Kunstler handled Richardson's defense and the author of this book, then assistant district attorney, prosecuted the case. Here is a first-hand, behind-the-scenes account of every step of the proceedings.

Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458202801
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Villains, No Heroes written by Thomas Moore and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO VILLAINS, NO HEROES is a moving historical novel of the 1912 Hillsville Massacre, the most shocking crime in the state of Virginia, and a cautionary tale for our own time about the true meaning of law and justice. No Villains, No Heroes dramatizes a shocking episode in Virginia history. In March 1912 Floyd Allen was convicted of assault in Carroll County, in Virginias Blue Ridge. When he announced, Gentlemen, I aint a-goin, a gun battle erupted in the crowded courtroom between law officers and the Allen clan. Five people were killed; seven wounded. Floyd and his young son Claude were executed a year later. Other Allens served long prison sentences. But who were the villains? Who were the heroes? In this moving historical novel, the narrator, a detective called in to hunt down the fugitives, grapples with these perplexing questions and the true meaning of law and justice. This exciting novel tells the story of a once-famous but now largely forgotten episode in Virginia history, the Hillsville Massacre of March 1912, recalled in vivid detail by Carter Hayne, a private lawman on the scene. His experience is so transforming that it turns him into a crusading lawyer who dedicates his life to advancing criminal justice. It effortlessly recreates an age and place, pre-modern America 100 years ago in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the setting for an event so complex and weighty, even primal, that it is, as Hayne says, just like a Greek tragedy. Kirkpatrick Sale, author of 12 books, including The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream.

Author : Robert M. O'Neil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780317423693
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Heroes, No Villains written by Robert M. O'Neil and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clarence Valentine Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Villain as Hero in Elizabethan Tragedy written by Clarence Valentine Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Arkwright
Publisher : London : J. Lane, the Bodley Head ; Toronto : Bell & Cockburn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trend written by William Arkwright and published by London : J. Lane, the Bodley Head ; Toronto : Bell & Cockburn. This book was released on 1914 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paula Gunn Allen
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807046173
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Hoop written by Paula Gunn Allen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.

Author : Alison M. Jaggar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317264746
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Methods written by Alison M. Jaggar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supplemented edition of this important reader includes a substantive new introduction by the author on the changing nature of feminist methodology. It takes into account the implications of a major new study included for this first time in this book on poverty and gender (in)equality, and it includes an article discussing the ways in which this study was conducted using the research methods put forward by the first edition. This article begins by explaining why a new and better poverty metric is needed and why developing such a metric requires an alternative methodological approach inspired by feminism. Feminist research is a growing tradition of inquiry that aims to produce knowledge not biased by inequitable assumptions about gender and related categories such as class, race, religion, sexuality, and nationality."Just Methods" is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines. Rather than being concerned with particular techniques of inquiry, the interdisciplinary readings in this book address broad questions of research methodology. They are designed to help researchers think critically and constructively about the epistemological and ethical implications of various approaches to research selection and research design, evidence-gathering techniques, and publication of results.A key theme running through the readings is the complex interrelationship between social power and inequality on the one hand and the production of knowledge on the other. A second and related theme is the inseparability of research projects and methodologies from ethical and political values."

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813520056
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Woman written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.

Author : Beverly J. Armento
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647423929
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Eye Girl written by Beverly J. Armento and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the “Seeing Eye Girl” for her blind, artistic, and mentally ill mother, Beverly Armento was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abused her. She was Strong Beverly at school—excellent in academics and mentored by caring teachers—but at home she was Weak Beverly, cowed by her mother’s rage and delusions. Beverly’s mother regained her sight with two corneal transplants in 1950 and went on to enjoy a moment of fame as an artist, but these positive turns did nothing to stop her disintegration into her delusional world of communists, radiation, and lurking Italians. To survive, Beverly had to be resilient and hopeful that better days could be ahead. But first, she had to confront essential ethical issues about her caregiving role in her family. In this emotional memoir, Beverly shares the coping strategies she invented to get herself through the trials of her young life, and the ways in which school and church served as refuges over the course of her journey. Breaking the psychological chains that bound her to her mother would prove to be the most difficult challenge of her life—and, ultimately, the most liberating one.

Author : Randolph N. Jonakait
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300124637
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Jury System written by Randolph N. Jonakait and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describes the historical and social pressures that have driven the development of the jury system; contrasts the American jury system to the legal process in other countries; reveals subtle changes in the popular view of juries; examines how the news media, movies, and books portray and even affect the system; and discusses the empirical data that show how juries actually operate and what influences their decisions.