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

the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy

by Heather Ann Thompson

724 pages · 2016

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"Historian Heather Ann Thompson offers the first definitive telling of the Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice--in time for the forty-fifth anniversary of the events"--

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