{"product_id":"book-dwcy","title":"A Shot in the Moonlight","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad \u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning's home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history — one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story, and the unusual convergence of characters — among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young, Kentucky governor William O'Connell Bradley, and George Dinning himself — that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare.","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348920475952,"sku":"BDdwcy","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/315497-dwcy-Square.jpg?v=1734236964","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dwcy","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}