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God'll cut you down : the tangled tale of a white supremacist, a Black hustler, a murder, and how i lost a year in Mississippi
- Title
- God'll cut you down : the tangled tale of a white supremacist, a Black hustler, a murder, and how i lost a year in Mississippi / John Safran.
- Author
- Safran, John.
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Hardcover, [2014].
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | JFE 15-4585 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xii, 351 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe it was a dispute over money rather than race-or, maybe and intriguingly, over sex. John Safran, a young white Jewish Australian documentarian, had been in Mississippi and interviewed Barrett for a film on race. When he learned of Barrett's murder, he returned to find out what happened and became caught up in the twists and turns of the case. During his time in Mississippi, Safran got deeper and deeper into this gothic southern world, becoming entwined in the lives of those connected with the murder-white separatist frenemies, black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbors, the stunned families, even the killer himself. And the more he talked with them, the less simple the crime-and the people involved-seemed to be. In the end, he discovered how profoundly and indelibly complex the truth about someone's life-and death-can be. This is a brilliant, haunting, hilarious, unsettling story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South from an outsider's point of view"--
- "An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South"--
- Subjects
- Contents
- Gmails with a frined -- The beginning -- Mississippi -- The murder -- What was Richard Barrett thinking? #1. Was Richard a racist? -- What was Richard Barrett thinking? #2. Was Richard gay? -- The trial -- Everybody talks -- Vincent -- Road trip -- The letter of the law -- Real talk -- The ring.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-490
- ISBN
- 9781594633355 (hardback)
- 1594633355 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014017207
- OCLC
- 883207070
- Author
- Safran, John.
- Title
- God'll cut you down : the tangled tale of a white supremacist, a Black hustler, a murder, and how i lost a year in Mississippi / John Safran.
- Publisher
- New York : Riverhead Hardcover, [2014].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-490JFE 15-4585
