Jeffrey Haas is an attorney and cofounder of the People's Law Office, whose clients included the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, community activists, and a large number of those opposed to the Vietnam War. He has handled cases involving prisoners' rights, Puerto Rican nationalists, protestors opposed to human rights violations in Central America, police torture, and the wrongfully accused. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"[A] political cliff-hanger . . . The Assassination of Fred
Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police murdered a Black
Panther is an expos� [that] should be read in schools across the
country." --Huffington Post
"An extraordinary retelling of a shameful chapter in our history. .
. . [The book] reveals just how easily justice can be thwarted and
malicious aims diguised when powerful people conspire to violate
the law (commit murder) and manipulate procedural to avoid
responsibility for their crimes. . . . [A] cautionary tale, as well
as a story of heroism." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim
Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
"A must-read." --Len Weinglass, lawyer and civil rights
activist
"A true crime story and legal thriller, this powerful account puts
together all the pieces, step by step, giving us the anatomy of a
despicable episode in recent American history. The writing is clear
and straightforward; the overall impact devastating." --Phillip
Lopate, author of Getting Personal
"An extremely important book--and a tale well told--for America to
read ifit wants to become what it says it has always been--the land
of the free and thehome of the brave." --Ramsey Clark, former
United States Attorney General
"At once journalist, lawyer and storyteller, Jeff Haas manages to
sear into everypage of this book a compassion seemingly forgotten,
providing a rivetingeyewitness account of the government
assassination of Fred Hampton. This ismandatory reading for those
who love and believe in freedom." --Elaine Brown, author and former
chairman of the Black Panther Party
"Part history, part courtroom drama, part literary memoir, Haas
evokes withchilling precision a bloody and desperate repressive
state apparatus locked inconflict with its greatest fear, a
charismatic young black man with revolution onhis mind." --William
Ayers, professor of education, University of Illinois at
Chicago
"Required political reading, especially for conservatives who are
genuinely concerned about the damage secret government can do."
--Chicago Daily Observer
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