Let It Burn - 2nd Edition by Michael Boyette & Randi Boyette (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>Let It Burn</em> is the true-life story of the confrontation between the Philadelphia Police Department and the MOVE organization-a group that rejected modern technology. A confrontation that ended in death and destruction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant.</p><p><br></p><p>In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants' headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner weighs his options and decides on a new plan. He will bomb the house. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Let It Burn</em> is the true-life story of the confrontation between the Philadelphia Police Department and the MOVE organization-a group that rejected modern technology and fought for what it called "natural law." The police commissioner's decision to drop an "explosive device" onto the house's roof-and then to let the resulting fire burn while adults and children remained in the house-was the final tragic chapter in a decades-long series of clashes that had already left one policeman dead and others injured, dozens of MOVE members behind bars, and their original compound razed to the ground.</p><p><br></p><p>By the time the fire burned itself out, eleven MOVE members, many of them women and small children, would be dead. Sixty-one houses in the neighborhood would be destroyed. There would be a city inquiry, numerous civil suits, and two grand-jury inquests following the confrontation. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events."-<em>Library Journal</em></p><p><br></p><p>"Compelling."-<em>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p><br></p><p>"A solid report from an unusual perspective."-<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p><br></p><p>"A balanced view."-<em>Booklist</em></p><br>
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