About this title: This volume provides an account of the Algier's Motel incident in 1967, when three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten in the Algiers Motel by, as the author describes it, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen and private guards who had been directed to the scene" following a telephone report of a sniping incident.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. No Jacket. Large Chip Back Cover, Remainder Mark, Corners Bumped, Soile Spot To Upper Left Corner, Text Is Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. A Book Club Edition, the author's account of an incident in the Detroit Riot of 1967. The episode contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the United States. read more
Binding: Perfect Bound Paper
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good + to Very Good- Mass Market Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light wear, crease to back wrap. Age yellowing, binding tight, pages clean. read more
Description: Pages are clean and in good condition, no writing or highlighting on inside book pages, the dust jacket is worn and has small tears along the edges. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, N. Y.
Date Published: 1968
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. -X-Library with usual library distinctions.....Library binding...The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by...... read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,, N. Y.
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good in Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws...The hard cover and the jacket has light shelf wear...Spine cock..........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: VG+ in Good jacket. Some edge wear and tearing on DJ. A nice copy of a documentary on the tragic events at the Algiers Motel. 397 pages. read more
"Very much worth revisiting if you've read it before--very much worth discovering if you haven't. A tense and meticulously told true crime story with real journalistic care about a profile act of racial violence (with more than a little police complicity) in Detroit in and around the 1967 riots.
Hersey was an interesting and versatile writer. His portfolio is diverse--both lyrical and pragmatic, but in this work he opened important doors for the hard-edged reporting style of prose into the new more complex sociological terrain of the Civil Rights/there's a riot goin' on era.
This book can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel...or as part of the "muckraking" social advocacy stream in American literature, which dates back in it strength to the 1870s.
I think Hersey is a writer, famous in his day, who deserves reappraisal. He did a lot of different things well. Not easily categorized in the totality of his work, which may be why he's not appreciated as much as he should be."
"it is amazing how one single act in the midst of a city in anarchy can reverberate throughout many of the problems still facing that city half a century later. quite simply an amazing piece of literature, that tells of an event that should have never been forgotten."
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