Título: A Shot in the Moonlight
Autor: Ben Montgomery
Sinopse: The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad ) Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah Magazine Named a "must-read" by the Chicago Review of Books One of CNN's most anticipated books of 2021 After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning's home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family. So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story, and the unusual convergence of characters among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young, Kentucky governor William O'Connell Bradley, and George Dinning himself that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “A Shot in the Moonlight”, de Ben Montgomery, publicado pela editora Little, Brown Spark, em 2021 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Little, Brown Spark
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2021
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Linguagem: English
ISBN: 0316535567
ISBN13: 9780316535564
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Little, Brown Spark exploram temas ligados à saúde integral, longevidade e bem-estar, com foco em abordagens científicas e práticas para o corpo e a mente. Muitas obras destacam a importância da alimentação, microbioma e estilo de vida para a saúde cerebral e física, apresentando planos e estratégias acessíveis ao leitor. O catálogo também inclui reflexões sobre fases da vida, como a maturidade, e provocações sobre cultura, descanso e felicidade, mesclando narrativas pessoais com pesquisas atuais. O tom varia entre o didático e o inspirador, com textos que buscam traduzir ciência complexa em orientações aplicáveis no dia a dia.
