The Resource Grant Park, Leonard Pitts, Jr
Grant Park, Leonard Pitts, Jr
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The item Grant Park, Leonard Pitts, Jr represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Grant Park, Leonard Pitts, Jr represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
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- "Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts between the two eras as it unfolds. Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication. While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint-at the same time dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a 60s activist-Toussaint is abducted by two improbable but still-dangerous white supremacists plotting to explode a bomb at Obama's planned rally in Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to remember the choices they made as idealistic, impatient young men, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement. "--
- ""A novel that weaves together the stories of two veteran journalists from Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis to the 2008 presidential election"--Provided by publisher"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Grant Park
- Title
- Grant Park
- Statement of responsibility
- Leonard Pitts, Jr
- Subject
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- FICTION / Literary
- trueJournalists
- Journalists
- Journalists -- Fiction
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- United States -- Fiction
- Race relations
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueWhite supremacists
- trueEditors
- Editors
- Editors -- Fiction
- trueElections
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts between the two eras as it unfolds. Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication. While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint-at the same time dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a 60s activist-Toussaint is abducted by two improbable but still-dangerous white supremacists plotting to explode a bomb at Obama's planned rally in Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to remember the choices they made as idealistic, impatient young men, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement. "--
- ""A novel that weaves together the stories of two veteran journalists from Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis to the 2008 presidential election"--Provided by publisher"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10449979
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pitts, Leonard
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Editors
- Journalists
- Race discrimination
- FICTION / Literary
- Editors
- Journalists
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Grant Park, Leonard Pitts, Jr
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1411921
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781932841916
- Lccn
- 2015021248
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781932841916
- (OCoLC)907154815
- Label
- Grant Park, Leonard Pitts, Jr
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1411921
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781932841916
- Lccn
- 2015021248
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781932841916
- (OCoLC)907154815
Subject
- FICTION / Literary
- trueJournalists
- Journalists
- Journalists -- Fiction
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- United States -- Fiction
- Race relations
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueWhite supremacists
- trueEditors
- Editors
- Editors -- Fiction
- trueElections
- Fiction
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