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Killing the Messenger: A Story of Rad..., Peele, Thomas
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- ISBN
- 0307717550
- EAN
- 9780307717559
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Back...
- Artist
- Peele, Thomas
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown/Archetype
ISBN-10
0307717550
ISBN-13
9780307717559
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103040577
Product Key Features
Book Title
Killing the Messenger : A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Islamic Studies, Murder / General, United States / 21st Century
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-029542
Reviews
" Killing the Messenger is a crackling work of nonfiction, impossible to put down. Like Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven , Thomas Peele unpacks a tale of extremism and evil spawned by another peculiar American religion, The Nation of Islam. The malicious leader Yusuf Bey and his murderous followers and sons in the Your Black Muslim Bakery cult wreaked bloody havoc on the Bay Area for decades, until finally brought down by their brazen killing of a community journalist, Chauncey Bailey." - Nina Burleigh, New York Times bestselling author of The Fatal Gift of Beauty "Tough, taut, and true! Killing the Messenger is a non-fiction noir trip through the dark side of religion, journalism, racial politics, and law enforcement. A REAL thriller." Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter "Peele exposes the sordid and homicidal history of the Nation of Islam and its offshoots. Yusef Bey, like David Koresh and Jim Jones before him, was the leader of a cult of personality. While most members of any cult are essentially good but misguided people, Peele shows how anyone, no matter how well-intentioned, will do almost anything including kill if he believes his leader is divine. Chauncey Bailey was, sadly, a victim of Bey's megalomania." --Karl Evanzz, author of The Judas Factor and The Messenger "Thomas Peele is one of the great investigative reporters working today. His remarkable and obsessively researched book charts the trajectory of an Oakland crime family responsible for a string of murders. More important, perhaps, it exposes the willful myopia of the city officials and community leaders who allowed this outfit to operate over a span of decades." -A.C. Thompson, Investigative reporter, ProPublica and PBS Frontline, "A complex, carefully constructed story of the development of the Black Muslim Movement and one of its most notorious leaders." Kirkus "[An] eye-opening narrative about radical religion and its consequences...Peele renders characters and scenes with rich detail and his chronicle of events surrounding Bailey's death unfolds with the seamlessness of a fictional thriller, would that were the case." Publisher's Weekly "[A] riveting account." - Booklist "A riveting account of the events that led up to Bailey's murder…It is an exhaustively researched narrative that details the rise and fall of Your Black Muslim Bakery…[with] Sometimes stomach-churning detail." - Oakland Tribune "This is totally chilling, incredibly strange material, and the book is sweeping, site-specific, and compulsively readable." The Observer's Very Short List " Killing the Messenger is a crackling work of nonfiction, impossible to put down. Like Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven , Thomas Peele unpacks a tale of extremism and evil spawned by another peculiar American religion, The Nation of Islam. The malicious leader Yusuf Bey and his murderous followers and sons in the Your Black Muslim Bakery cult wreaked bloody havoc on the Bay Area for decades, until finally brought down by their brazen killing of a community journalist, Chauncey Bailey." - Nina Burleigh, New York Times bestselling author of The Fatal Gift of Beauty "Tough, taut, and true! Killing the Messenger is a non-fiction noir trip through the dark side of religion, journalism, racial politics, and law enforcement. A REAL thriller." Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter "Peele exposes the sordid and homicidal history of the Nation of Islam and its offshoots. Yusuf Bey, like David Koresh and Jim Jones before him, was the leader of a cult of personality. While most members of any cult are essentially good but misguided people, Peele shows how anyone, no matter how well-intentioned, will do almost anything including kill if he believes his leader is divine. Chauncey Bailey was, sadly, a victim of Bey's megalomania." --Karl Evanzz, author of The Judas Factor and The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad "Thomas Peele is one of the great investigative reporters working today. His remarkable and obsessively researched book charts the trajectory of an Oakland crime family responsible for a string of murders. More important, perhaps, it exposes the willful myopia of the city officials and community leaders who allowed this outfit to operate over a span of decades." -A.C. Thompson, Investigative reporter, ProPublica and PBS Frontline
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3092
Synopsis
In the vein of Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" comes the mesmerizing story of how charlatans exploited the tragedy of racism and created a radical religion of bloodshed and fear that culminated in the murder of an Oakland, California, newspaper editor., When a nineteen-year-old member of a Black Muslim cult assassinated Oakland newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey in 2007--the most shocking killing of a journalist in the United States in thirty years--the question was, Why? "I just wanted to be a good soldier, a strong soldier," the killer told police. A strong soldier for whom? K illing the Messenger is a searing work of narrative nonfiction that explores one of the most blatant attacks on the First Amendment and free speech in American history and the small Black Muslim cult that carried it out. Award-winning investigative reporter Thomas Peele examines the Black Muslim movement from its founding in the early twentieth century by a con man who claimed to be God, to the height of power of the movement's leading figure, Elijah Muhammad, to how the great-grandson of Texas slaves reinvented himself as a Muslim leader in Oakland and built the violent cult that the young gunman eventually joined. Peele delves into how charlatans exploited poor African Americans with tales from a religion they falsely claimed was Islam and the years of bloodshed that followed, from a human sacrifice in Detroit to police shootings of unarmed Muslims to the horrible backlash of racism known as the "zebra murders," and finally to the brazen killing of Chauncey Bailey to stop him from publishing a newspaper story. Peele establishes direct lines between the violent Black Muslim organization run by Yusuf Bey in Oakland and the evangelicalism of the early prophets and messengers of the Nation of Islam. Exposing the roots of the faith, Peele examines its forerunner, the Moorish Science Temple of America, which in the 1920s and '30s preached to migrants from the South living in Chicago and Detroit ghettos that blacks were the world's master race, tricked into slavery by white devils. In spite of the fantastical claims and hatred at its core, the Nation of Islam was able to build a following by appealing to the lack of identity common in slave descendants. In Oakland, Yusuf Bey built a cult through a business called Your Black Muslim Bakery, beating and raping dozens of women he claimed were his wives and fathering more than forty children. Yet, Bey remained a prominent fixture in the community, and police looked the other way as his violent soldiers ruled the streets. An enthralling narrative that combines a rich historical account with gritty urban reporting, Killing the Messenger is a mesmerizing story of how swindlers and con men abused the tragedy of racism and created a radical religion of bloodshed and fear that culminated in a journalist's murder. THOMAS PEELE is a digital investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group and the Chauncey Bailey Project. He is also a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. His many honors include the Investigative Reporters and Editors Tom Renner Award for his reporting on organized crime, and the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage. He lives in Northern California.
LC Classification Number
HV6534.O23P44 2012
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