Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307387437 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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I am a convert All throughout school I intensely disliked history classes - they were so boring! Although I had heard that Hampton Sides is a great writer, I've resisted reading his books because they sounded like "history class" (a big turn-off to me). I enjoy reading and didn't want to ruin a good day with what I thought would be boring history. Well I am so glad I finally dared to read "Hellhound" - what an excellent book! What an excellent writer! Hampton sides makes history come alive. Connie (She who hikes with dogs) said A political thriller. Yale-trained historian Hampton Sides hails from Memphis. His father had worked on the MLK trial as a lawyer. So it's no wonder that this fascinating book feels like a personal memoir, an intimate story from the writer. This book is the story of all the characters involved in the murder of Martin Luther King, their characteristics, their habits, their quirks. And, so typical of Hampton Sides, this book is thoroughly researched, well-written, and well-organized.I was just a ch. GOOD NON FICTION STORY phyllis CD REVIEW--BOUGHT USED, SO FAR DISCS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION THOUGH HAVE NOT FINISHED USING THEM--NARRATION IS EXCELLENT, NON FICTION STORY IS INTERESTING
NATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco ChronicleWith a New AfterwordOn April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. With a blisterin
That’s true of the Bataan Death March, with the conquest of the West, and now, here, with the end of the Civil Rights era.Q:What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist?A:The first writer I ever met growing up in Memphis was Shelby Foote, the great Civil War historian, and he gave me certain ideas at an early age about what narrative history can aspire to be. In 1967, King was struggling to complete his monumental Civil Rights crusade and to maintain, amid the rise of more militant factions, the movement’s nonviolent nobility. A friend once told me I’m interested in "human disasters"--social storms of one sort or another, and the ways in which people survive them, throu