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Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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92/100Author:
David Zucchino
Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press
Date:
January 7, 2020
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, Wilmington's Lie uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official communications to create a narrative of the Wilmington insurrection and coup of 1898, a remarkable but often forgotten chapter of American history.
What The Reviewers Say
David Zucchino’s engaging and disturbing book, Wilmington’s Lie, not only vividly reconstructs the events of 1898 but reveals the mountain of lies that has stood in the way of a truer, if not a reconciled, history. All those in America who do not understand the old and festering foundation of contemporary voter suppression should read this book.
... brilliant.
Zucchino offers a gripping account of one of the most disturbing, though virtually unknown, political events in American history.
In Wilmington’s Lie, David Zucchino...punctures the myths surrounding the insurrection and provides a dynamic and detailed account of the lives of perpetrators and victims.
