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Live from Death Row - by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Paperback)

Live from Death Row - by  Mumia Abu-Jamal (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard. --Alice Walker</strong></p><p><strong>Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s <em>Letter From Birmingham Jail</em>. -<em>Boston Globe</em></strong></p><p>After twenty years on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal was released from his death sentence . . . but not the conviction. This once prominent radio reporter was convicted for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982, after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. <em>Live from Death Row</em> is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life, and a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. <em>Live From Death Row</em> is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A scathing indictment of this country's justice system from a man about to receive it's ultimate punishment. . . . He has become one of America's most controversial and eloquent death row prisoners.--<strong><em>New York Daily News</em></strong><br><br>Abu-Jamal is an articulate voice at the far side of this country's great racial divide. . . . In this decade when building prisons and increasing the use of the death penalty have become popular responses to crime, Abu-Jamal's perspective is worth reading.--<strong><em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em></strong><br><br>Documents the maddening psychological and physical torment of a life awaiting execution inside Huntingdon County Prison. . . . His words shock in a raw, disturbing style.--<strong><em>Boston Globe</em></strong><br><br>Presents a bracing challenge to complacent views about crime, race, and incarceration.--<strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br><br>Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s <em>Letter From Birmingham Jail</em>.--<strong><em>Boston Globe</em></strong><br><br>We aren't supposed to feel connected with people 'inside'--least of all those on Death Row. Mumia Abu-Jamal's eloquent, scholarly, urgent dispatches teach us that we ignore those connections at our own peril.--<strong>Adrienne Rich</strong><br><br>A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard.--<strong>Alice Walker</strong><br><br>A tough, true, timely book. You cannot read it and remain unmoved.--<strong>E.L. Doctorow</strong><br><br>An important book [that] takes us into the bowels of hell...Abu-Jamal offers expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system...His writings are dangerous.--<strong><em>Village Voice</em></strong><br><br>Brilliant in its specificity and imperative, Mumia Abu-Jamal's work is about why multitudes of people don't overcome. It rings so true because he has not overcome.--<strong><em>LA Weekly</em></strong><br>

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