My Father and Atticus Finch A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780393285826
  • 17 juni 2016
  • 240 pagina's
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A memoir about the author’s father, whose courageous defence of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.



As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father’s legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman. A lawyer himself, Beck became intrigued by the similarities between his father’s story and Harper Lee’s iconic novel.

Beck reconstructs his father’s role in the 1938 trial—much publicised when Harper Lee was twelve years old—in which the examining doctor testified before a hostile courtroom that there was no evidence of intercourse or violence. Nevertheless, the all-white jury voted to convict. This riveting memoir explores how race, class and the memory of the American South’s defeat in the Civil War produced the trial’s outcome and how these issues compare with the American literary imagination.

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Hardcover
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17 juni 2016
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240
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Hoofdauteur
Joseph Beck
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Ww Norton & Co

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150 mm
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23 mm
Product lengte
218 mm
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150 mm
Verpakking hoogte
210 mm
Verpakking lengte
218 mm
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384 g

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