{"product_id":"book-dmtr","title":"The Organ Thieves","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e in this “startling…powerful” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in \u003ci\u003eThe Organ Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of the New South\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49346972123440,"sku":"BDdmtr","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49346972156208,"sku":"10dmtr","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dmtr-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773692127","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dmtr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}