My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama

Beck, Joseph Madison

ISBN 10 : 1683240626 ISBN 13 : 9781683240624

Editeur : Center Point, 2016

Synopsis

"A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird"--

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father's legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman. Now a lawyer himself, Beck has become intrigued by the similarities between his father's story and the one at the heart of Harper Lee's iconic novel. Beck reconstructs here his father's role in the 1938 trial-much publicised when Harper Lee was twelve years old-in which the examining doctor testified before a packed and hostile courtroom that there was no evidence of intercourse or violence. Nevertheless, the all white jury voted to convict. This riveting memoir seeks to understand how race, class and the memory of the South's defeat in the Civil War produced the trial's outcome, and how these issues figure into our literary imagination.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Madison Beck is an Atlanta attorney. He also teaches at Emory Law School and has lectured at universities throughout the United States and abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center Point
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1683240626
• ISBN 13: 9781683240624
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 500
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible