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'A Saint on Death Row' is an Intervention in Public Memorynew

Thomas Cahill catalogs every disgraceful aspect of Dominique Green's experience with the justice system. His larger mission, though, is to examine the changes Green underwent after receiving his death sentence -- his transformation from a troubled teenager into what Cahill calls "a fully achieved human being."
The Texas Observer  |  Todd Moye  |  08-12-2009  |  Nonfiction

'Slavery by Another Name' Examines Post-Civil War Convict Labornew

Douglas Blackmon argues -- passionately, forcefully and convincingly -- that by any measure, blacks in the states of the former Confederacy saw their freedom so warped and constrained in the decades after the Civil War that the overwhelming majority were not in any meaningful way free.
The Texas Observer  |  Todd Moye  |  12-17-2008  |  Nonfiction

Martin Luther King, Jr., the Economistnew

Jackson casts King as arguably the most important, and certainly the most eloquent, American political economist of the 20th century.
The Texas Observer  |  Todd Moye  |  09-10-2007  |  Nonfiction

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