04277cam a2200781 4500 545336062 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780399183430 0399183434 B074DH4G9L Amazon b55ba1ec-4478-4e77-951d-4b1f1eed8035 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3375729 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib King, Gilbert. Beneath a Ruthless Sun [Libby] : A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found. Penguin Publishing Group, 2018. incarceration. True Crime. politics. Law. rape. disability. sexual assault. Prison. crime. mental health. american history. Journalism. Criminal Justice. Civil Rights. Thurgood Marshall. race. Race relations. Criminal Justice System. Investigative Journalism. feminism. biographies. Poverty. learning disability. ruthless. Social Issues. mental illness. narrative nonfiction. Social Justice. Sociology. American South. crime books. florida history. wrongful conviction. florida crime. 1950s history. award winning books for adults. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 15MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 16MB. History. Sociology. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY <i>NPR</i> and <i>THE WASHINGTON POST</i><br /> <br /> "Compelling, insightful and important, <i>Beneath a Ruthless Sun</i> exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read." —Bryan Stevenson, author of <i>Just Mercy</i><br /> <br /> From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller <i>Devil in the Grove</i>, the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret.</b><br /> <br /> In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a "husky Negro" did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked away without trial.<br /> But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies. Bit by bit, the unspeakable truths behind a conspiracy that shocked a community into silence begin to surface.<br /> <br /> <i>Beneath a Ruthless Sun</i> tells a powerful, page-turning story rooted in the fears that rippled through the South as integration began to take hold, sparking a surge of virulent racism that savaged the vulnerable, debased the powerful, and roils our own times still. Media Type: eBook. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b55ba1ec-4478-4e77-951d-4b1f1eed8035&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b55ba1ec-4478-4e77-951d-4b1f1eed8035&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b55ba1ec-4478-4e77-951d-4b1f1eed8035&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)