false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512370m/182156.jpg 182156 6 Despite what it said in the <I>New York Times</I> or the <i>Congressional Record,</i> not everybody in America got the word right away about the civil rights movement. Thus it was that well into the 1970s, McIntosh County in backwoods Georgia remained a place where the black majority still had never elected one of their own to any county office, where black kids were bused away from the white school, and where the white county sheriff had his hand in every racket there was. <i>Praying for Sheetrock</i> is the saga of how, thanks to the leadership of a black shop-steward-turned-county-commissioner named Thurnell Alston, together with the aid of a cadre of idealistic Legal Services lawyers (Melissa Greene was one of their paralegals) this situation began to change. The story, written as grippingly as a novel, is charged with twists that only nonfiction can deliver; for example, Alston, for all the brave good he did, ultimately got caught in a federal sting and went to jail while the corrupt sheriff walked. This is, writes Greene, a story of "large and important things happening in a very little place." 716227 book 1991 Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction total:181|5:58|4:76|3:32|2:10|1:5| 181 715 319 42 4 1 false false Tue Apr 17 08:16:18 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 17 08:22:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Tue Feb 17 12:32:39 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 12:38:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 07:10:28 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:16:07 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 09 17:39:45 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 17:45:12 -0700 2008
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This book is really good. Really something. I don't want to say important, because what do I know (besides that if I say it's important you'll ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Aug 06 11:26:58 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 11:45:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 10:12:41 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 21:22:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false true Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 22:21:13 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 06:16:28 -0700 2008
Finally finished! Although I really enjoyed reading the book and the author's style, for some reason I could only read a few pages at a time before having to take a break.
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