He Calls Me By Lightning
Read by
Mirron Willis
Release:
05/02/2017
Release:
05/02/2017
Release:
05/02/2017
Release:
05/02/2017
Runtime:
13h 41m
Runtime:
13h 41m
Runtime:
13h 41m
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“He Calls Me By Lightning insists that we face the cost of lives that don’t matter to a persistent racial caste system. It reminds us that human endurance and irrepressible love outlast the glacial pace of change and proves how much we do not yet know about our history.”
New York Times Book Review
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2017
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice. Here, in the hands of historian S. Jonathan Bass, Washington's ordeal and life are rescued from anonymity and become a moving parable of one man's survival and perseverance in a hellish system.
He Calls Me by Lightning is both a compelling legal drama and a fierce depiction of the Jim Crow South that forces us to take account of the lives cast away by systemic racism.
He Calls Me by Lightning is both a compelling legal drama and a fierce depiction of the Jim Crow South that forces us to take account of the lives cast away by systemic racism.
Release:
2017-05-02
2017-05-02
2017-05-02
2017-05-02
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
13h 41m
13h 41m
13h 41m
13h 41m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
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0.98 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781515985563
9781665284820
9781665284837
9781515915560
Publisher:
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
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