Bruce Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Yankee Magazine, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.
"Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with
impressive verisimilitude."
-Washington Post
"Remarkable...a well-researched, vivid retelling of the 1964 civil
rights crusade to put Mississippi's 200,000 disenfranchised blacks
on the voting rolls...[an] important book."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Elegantly written...A fascinating look at ordinary people at their
best and worst...Riveting."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An amazing account of one pivotal summer in the history of civil
rights...with a thriller's pacing, the book forcefully describes
the depravity and treachery behind the bombings, beatings and
intimidation...and shows the physical and emotional costs of such a
fight."
-The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Engrossing"
-The Economist
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