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On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Among his troops, there were only five black men, who have largely been treated as little more than "spear carriers" by Brown's many biographers and other historians of the antebellum era. This book brings one such man, John Anthony Copeland, directly to center stage. Copeland played a leading role in the momentous Oberlin slave rescue, and he successfully escorted a fugitive to Canada, making him an ideal recruit for Brown's invasion of Virginia. He fought bravely at Harpers Ferry, only to be captured and charged with murder and treason. With his trademark lively prose and compelling narrative style, Steven Lubet paints a vivid portrait of this young black man who gave his life for freedom.

The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery, by Steven Lubet

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• Published on: 2015-09-10
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The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery, by Steven Lubet

Review "In this vivid account of John Anthony Copeland and his times, Steven Lubet has recovered from unjust obscurity the story of a young man of deep passion and moral commitment. With both narrative verve and a telling eye for the dramatic, he has also given us an intimate portrait of the competing worlds of slavery and abolitionist activism on the cusp of the Civil War. The 'Colored Hero' of Harpers Ferry is a significant addition to our understanding of the brave but tragic saga of John Brown and his men." Fergus M. Bordewich, author of America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union"The 'Colored Hero' of Harpers Ferry is a well-researched and highly readable work of scholarship. Steven Lubet chronicles in fine detail the life and tragic death of a 'colored' participant in John Brown's ill-fated raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The author brings the raid, its characters, and its aftermath to life in vivid detail, never abandoning the thread that ties the idealistic young John Anthony Copeland to the antebellum movement to abolish slavery." Ron Soodalter, author of Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader, and The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today"In this well-researched and well-written book, Steven Lubet tells the tale of John Anthony Copeland, one of only five black men to join John Brown in his attack on Harpers Ferry. By focusing on one of the men, and on a black man, Lubet has given us a fresh and fascinating perspective on the months just before the Civil War." Walter Stahr, Presidential Fellow, Chapman University"Steven Lubet is a master storyteller. In this book, he tells the story of a little-known well-educated black man, John Anthony Copeland, who joined John Brown at Harpers Ferry. The insurrection is told from the perspective of Copeland, a pious abolitionist who thought he was there to rescue enslaved people and escort them to freedom as he had helped runaways to Canada before ... Copeland was one of only five black men who were recruited to John Brown's cause, though he only knew of Brown's true purpose shortly before the shooting began. From Lubet's careful reading of original material, he is able to piece together a thoroughly engrossing tale. A story to be read and remembered." Lea VanderVelde, Josephine Witte Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law

About the Author Steven Lubet is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and a leading authority on African American resistance to slavery and notable trials in American history. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial and John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook. Lubet has been an award-winning columnist for the American Lawyer Magazine, a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and the author of many op-ed pieces in national newspapers and on Slate.com and Salon.com.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Neglected Dimension of Brown/ Harpers Ferry...Gotta Read It By j a haverstick Harper’s Ferry is a beautiful little town at the confluence of the Shenandoah and the Potomac, just south of the Pa. border, maybe 140 miles west of Philly. If you go and if you climb the steep hill to the cemetery (the town climbs the hill like a Mediterranean village) to see the merger of the these euphoniously named rivers, the view is postcard like. The town itself is well preserved, much under the auspices of the park service for historical reasons and the various museum are well kept. There are several very nice eating places where you can have some good sandwiches or bar food, a couple with court yards. It’s not hard to take yourself back to 1861. It is hard, however, not to feel the heavy weight of America’s past. This place is full of ghosts. More real than your fellow visitors, it seems. If you’re in day trip distance, do it.And, then, there’s the moral and spiritual component. Overwhelming. Most folks, and I’d guess most European Americans like me, have the idea of “Old Brown” prominently in their thoughts. In a way, that’s a distraction, for one reason because John Brown’s biography is a separate issue. The situation on the ground and at the time involved a cast of characters. John Copeland has his own story, masterfully related here.Copeland came from a free black family in NC who had moved to Oberlin, Ohio. His mixed parentage and “free” legal status offered him little in the antebellum United States, at least in comparison to the euros. Compared to being whipped, sold, yanked away from his family, etc., maybe the glass was half full. A strength of this book, for me, was its matter-of-fact treatment of the status of free Africans at the time. This wasn’t exactly news to me, but it was factually quite informative. This is the first most interesting part of the book. The author is very good on facts. In that regard Copeland, himself, rightfully saw the glass as half empty. It’s a sad commentary on the rulers (people?) of this country that we have to say a couple centuries later that we’re a long way from the goal and that a lot of euros still blame the victim. But I digress.I have no problem in justifying Brown’s actions, although I’m a Quaker (and an ethics professor). Living in slave society is a mortal affront to everyone in it - and all bets are off when it comes to resistance. If the human living in that society, though, happens to be one of the enslaved group, I really don’t think there are too many restraints on his or her choice of actions to remedy the evil. Some, of course, but the default by natural law is to do what it takes to destroy the institution.We are half way through the 200 pages before Copeland takes center stage in his own right. He lives in Oberlin, as above, an oasis of decency. The culture of this town is impressively drawn. John has not finished school, yet he is a deliberate and literate young man participating in the abolitionist activities around him In short order he has taken a barrel stave to a Buchaninite Fugitive-Slave-Law-enforcing federal marshal. (I’m from Buchanan’s home town, another area of refuge at the time, -also the hometown of Thaddeus Stevens! - Lancaster, Pa.). A little later he joins a group of Euros and Africans who chase down a slave catcher at a train station. Copeland pulls a gun on the slavecatcher! Escorting the rescued escapee to Canada is where he apparently hooks up with Old Brown’s team. Brown by this time has quite a reputation. Brown's saving role in Bloody Kansas is well known. Again we find the Buchanan administration actively abetting the forces of darknss. There, Brown finally brought Southern tactics to the fight against the South.* He is finessing his role in a famous atrocity, however. Brown has also led an expedition to Missouri to actually rescue and lead to Canada a group of 12 slaves, all the while walking around in public taunting the federal and local authorities. Of course on his next strike, to begin an insurrection in the South an establish an interim “government”, constitution and all, by raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, he’d really like the participation of some Africans. But recruitment has been tough in general, especially as some delay by Brown had caused confusion. There is a question whether anybody, Copeland included, knew they were signing up for an invasion or a (lesser) slave rescuing foray. This becomes an issue later in the ensuing trials.The attack on the armory is treated in outline. Copeland is separated from the main body and stationed at the rifle works and is subsequentially captured. From here we launch into the second most interesting part of the book, historically speaking: the trials. Here we see a microcosm of the Satanic evil which rotted the social contract from the outset. First, the euros tried, Brown and the other eoroamericans were, though, of course, going to be hanged no matter what, afforded a semblance of legal procedure. And their tribulations and pronouncements given space in the press. Not so Copeland and the other African defendant. Their defense is an afterthought (though one lawyer’s claim that since Dred Scott affirms an African can’t be a citizen exempts them from the treason charge is an ironic victory!). Additionally their final words to the court, if any, etc., are just not part of our Great Country’s history, being not as newsworthy as their euro counterparts. In perhaps the most gruesome commentary of all, Copeland was buried shallowly on the hanging grounds to shortly be dug up for dissection! His family’s plea to have the body was dismissed, and being African, no one was permitted to come to Virginia to claim the body!The 21st century’s bovine politicians and their bloviating mouth-trumpets have emptied the word “hero” of all meaning. John Copeland is a true American hero in the way honest folk once used the word.(Lubet's specialty, I get from the DJ, is african resistance antebellum. This has inspired me to do some more close reading on the Christiana Riots which took place nearby and so I've ordered an older book, Bloody Dawn**, on that incident where, when slave catchers were sent here to Lancaster, one was killed. Happy to say that that also involved the gentle people, Quakers. And the catchers didn't come back. I struggle to express myself succintly as a liberal white guy. The great part of the book under review is that it gives a detailed account of the actions of a black guy, a perspective maybe a little underplayed.)* I cannot forbear repeating Mark Twain's remark on Southern honor: sneaking up on someone in the deark and shooting them in the back.** I did order and read T. Slaughter's Bloody Dawn, just $5. If there's anyone who wants to deepen her understanding of the role and condition of free blacks, this is another 200 page impressive read on that subject as expressed in the Cristiana riot of 1859. It's an even smoother narrative. Back to back, I'm feeling well informed.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. He describes in great detail the perfidy of slave owners and the evil ... By Jeffry V. Mallow Law professor Steven Lubet has done it again. As in his earlier book about John Brown’s spy John Cook, Lubet illuminates the events leading up to the Harpers Ferry raid, but this time through the biography of one of the black men who fought alongside Brown. John Anthony Copeland was a free black, born in North Carolina the son of free blacks. His family moved north to the abolitionist town of Oberlin, Ohio. This book is as much about Oberlin as about Copeland. That remarkable integrated community served as a haven for free blacks and for runaway slaves, who were protected by Oberlin residents or spirited to Canada. Copeland himself escorted an escaped slave across the border.Copeland was both an anti-slavery revolutionary and a deeply religious man. The latter strongly influenced the former, perhaps was even the dominant influence in his activities, up to and including the Harpers Ferry raid. Lubet paints a detailed picture of Copeland, his surroundings, his family and friends, and his conversion to militancy. As in all of Lubet’s books--and I have read them all--, he combines dramatic storytelling with impeccable scholarship. This is (the phrase sounds oxymoronic!) an erudite page-turner. He describes in detail the perfidy of slave owners and the evil they supported, an evil endorsed by the US Supreme Court in the notorious Dred Scott decision, depriving blacks of citizenship, and the Fugitive Slave Act (the subject of yet another Lubet book), further enabling slave hunters to carry out their mission in both north and south.Like the other captured raiders and Brown himself, Copeland was hanged. At least as awful as the capture was the post mortem treatment of Copeland and another black, Shields Green. In a book replete with descriptions of the horrors endured by blacks, slave and free, I found this chapter the most horrifying. Despite pleas from the families, the decaying bodies were delivered to a local medical school whose students threatened the lawyer sent to retrieve them, essentially driving him out of town.John Brown’s leadership of the raid has been well studied. Not so the lives of his fellow raiders, and especially not of the black men among them. For this, Steven Lubet is owed a debt of gratitude. And not only for this, but for once again giving the lie to the claims of the revisionists and irredentists. The Civil War wasn’t about states’ rights or about economics or about “northern aggression.” It was about slavery.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Forgotten Hero By Ms. L. This book is very well-written, and really portrays John Copeland, who was my great great uncle!

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Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War, by Nick Lloyd

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A guide to Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, beginning in the 19th century with the conditions and movements which led to the revolution of 1936, and ending with the fall of the city on 26th January 1939 when Franco's tanks drove down the Diagonal and set about destroying everything the Republic had built. Stories from the aftermath of the war, the exile and the Franco regime are also included. In addition with dealing with the more obvious themes such as anarchism, the Spanish Republic, Catalonia, George Orwell, the aerial bombing, and the May Days, etc, the book also looks at themes such as the Zoo during the Civil War, the American Sixth Fleet in the city, Barça, urbanism, Nazis in Barcelona, Robert Capa, the Spanish in the Holocaust, poster art... Intertwined in the text are contemporary quotes and a few personal stories of people I have met who experienced the war or its aftermath. There are also biographies of characters such as Andreu Nin and Lluís Companys.

Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War, by Nick Lloyd

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• Published on: 2015-09-04
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Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War, by Nick Lloyd

About the Author Nick Lloyd has lived in Barcelona since 1991 and has been running Spanish Civil Wars in the city since 2010. "I first became interested in the working class history of my neighbourhood of Poble Sec which eventually drew me back to Orwell and the war. I started doing the tours in 2010. I honestly never get tired of doing the same tours again and again because I get so many interesting people turning up, who assail me with streams of great questions, some of which I have no idea about and so I have to go home and research them. And so, although the physical routes we take are always very similar, it always goes off in odd directions in terms of topics. This is also because people come from many different backgrounds and countries and so often look at the war from the prism of their own countries (say, art and photography, the International Brigades, other conflicts such as the Greek and Finnish Civil Wars and WW2, the Holocaust, etc). People come from many different walks of life (university professors, artists, journalists, film makers, factory workers, history teachers and students, US marines, lawyers, etc) from almost 60 countries (UK and US first but also Albania, Egypt, Iran and China). They have widely differing levels of knowledge from experts in their field of the war to absolutely zero. A number of people are brought by some family connection (International Brigades, Popular Olympiad, Spanish Diaspora). Declared prior interests of clients include Orwell, anarchism, women’s history, photography and the Spanish Civil War as a prelude to WW2. I tell people I think what we’re doing is only on the edge of being tourism. There is debate, at times it seems we are discussing the whole history of the 20th century, rather than that of one city. People invariably also want to talk about the politics of today."

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Outstanding Look at Barcelona During the Spanish Civil War By Jay Humphreys Trying to make sense of the Spanish Civil War can be a daunting task, but it is one I have pursued for well over a year. I have read everything I could find -- including Hemingway, Preston, Orwell, Beevor and a host of others. This book by Nick Lloyd is my favorite. An accomplished Barcelona tour guide, Lloyd has created a book that provides an understandable overview of the conflict in Barcelona, including descriptions of key participants that seem more personable than others I have read. The second half of the book is an in-depth tour of dozens of sites where infamous and little-know incidents occurred during the war. His descriptions, combined with easy-to-understand maps, create a “you-are-there” reading experience that is hard to surpass. In addition, his use of quotes from among the many writers who were in Barcelona at the time helps create a literary time machine for readers. The result is a book that provides a lively, entertaining and enlightening look at a city at war with external and internal enemies. The only thing better would be to participate in one of Lloyd’s tours. As a result of this book, that tour has definitely been added to my bucket list.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A must for your Barcelona visit and to understand the civil war events there By rosie If you want to understand how the Spanish Civil War unfolded in Barcelona and especially if you are going to Barcelona, get this book, and also take Nick Lloyd's tour of civil war sites. I took the tour and then used the Kindle version of the book as we toured other parts of Barcelona. It transformed my sense of the history of the city, I love Gaudi and the modernistas, and I want to understand more about the role of the industrialists who funded them in the larger scope of history. I'd heard about priests killed in Montserrat but wondered--who did this? why? In the city, stories from the civil war unfold easily if you search for the site where you are and then read what Nick Lloyd adds to the description of the site. He has also added links to make it easy to find pieces, e.g., about Miro, from various starting points in the book. The Kindle version was great for me as a traveller who can't carry much weight. One advantage, though, of the paperback would be to have his maps easily at hand as you flip through the book. My recommendation: read the overall history sections of the book before you go, make some plans of places you want to see & also use the site references while you're there. It's great to be standing at one of the sites and reading about it. This history is not always easy to find, not everyone wants to speak about it, but if you know something and offer the invitation to guides and others, they may open up a bit about their own parents and grandparents. That's what happened for us.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Astonishingly thorough and interesting. By Rebecca I have taken students on Nick Lloyd's extraordinarily good walking tour about Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War several times, and I have been surprised to learn more with each new group. Now I know why Nick's tour becomes richer each time I take it. The enthusiasm and narrative energy that make Nick's tour so fascinating are definitely discernible in his written narrative, and his extensive research and inclusion of primary source material throughout the book are simply phenomenal. If you ever have a chance to visit Barcelona, you should definitely take the tour, but also buy and carry the book.

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Stories of Survival: Arkansas Farmers during the Great Depression, by William Downs Jr.

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Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the state, farm families recall their best times, their worst times, and day-to-day experiences such as chores, washing, bathing, clothes making, medical care, home remedies, spiritual life, courtship and marriage, and school experiences. Their stories reveal how ordinary men and women, frequently living in abject poverty, endured cataclysmic natural disasters and economic collapse with extraordinary courage, faith, resourcefulness, and a good sense of humor.

Stories of Survival: Arkansas Farmers during the Great Depression, by William Downs Jr.

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Stories of Survival: Arkansas Farmers during the Great Depression, by William Downs Jr.

About the Author William D. Downs Jr. is professor emeritus of mass communications at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he served as chair of the department for more than forty years. A graduate of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, he also received MA and PhD degrees from the University of Missouri–Columbia.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Not Just for Arkansas Readers By Kat Yares I purchased this book to get an idea of what Arkansans went through during the Great Depression for a novel, I myself, am writing. Little did I know that this book would hold a place on my bookshelf right next to the Foxfire books (along with their many sister publications) on the shelf.William Downs, Jr. makes the depression come alive in first person accounts on everything from money to chores to hunger and relief for those who lived through those terrible years. Starting with an overview of cause and effect of the Great Depression in Arkansas, he quickly jumps into oral histories of the times. What makes this real is the pictures of those giving their stories, along with where they were born and raised.While labeled Arkansas Studies on the back of the book - this book is for anyone who a:) loves the Foxfire series of books or b:) is interested in that time period of American History. It is a book full of 1st person accounts of the times and will pull at your heartstrings (unless you are much like Pres. Hoover at the time). Although technically a textbook, this book is for anyone with an interest of the era.This book will be read and referenced many times in the coming years. Many similarities can be made between the times then and the downturn of the economy today that we find ourselves living in. As I read each little tidbit in the many sections, I can only say "there but for fortune, go I".I can highly recommend this book to history buffs but I'll even go a step beyond that and say that this book should be required reading for High Schools all over the country. Just maybe if kids today knew first hand how bad their grandparents (and great grandparents) had it in life, they might not feel so entitled today. (Wishful thinking? probably so)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Very interesting. By Fwanny I enjoyed reading this book both because I am from Arkansas, and because I once knew Bill Downs when he was at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. I was in college at the time and sang in his church choir some.I can identify with a lot of the situations because I've heard my grandmother and my dad tell their stories about those times. They were hard times, and actually my dad didn't like to watch "The Waltons" because it reminded him of those days. They were hard times, but people survived and I'm glad.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Good present, Christmas or otherwise By Robert L. Hudson Farming has always been a difficult way to make a living at the level where hoe meets dirt. Hunting and gathering was easier, one might even say more natural, but Homo sapiens began to wander less and congregate more perhaps as much as 10,000 years ago. Agriculture became a way of life. Crops were planted, tended and harvested. It was a more predictable way to insure the necessities of food, fluid and shelter.In many ways things did not change a lot until less than one hundred years ago when agriculture became mechanized like was happening in life in general. The things that varied over the years were things like who owned the land and who did the work. In feudal times in Europe the land was owned by the few and worked by the many. When the vast lands of the New World were discovered it was an opportunity for the many to leave bondage to the few and seek their own plot of ground to carve out a life where a land owning master was not needed.Thus many boat loads of Europeans were emptied onto the shores of the New World over a few centuries. Some flourished and some died and for many years more kept coming from Europe. Eventually all parts of the country where food could be grown were well populated with families subsistence farming on a 40 or an 80 or sometimes more. Some were trying to get ahead but most were just trying to get by, to raise a family that was fed, that was dry, that had a comfortable place to sleep, a school to teach the basics, a church at which to gather and worship and eventually a place to be buried while the cycle repeated.By 1920, say, this subsistence farming was all over Arkansas. This was not yet 100 years ago but still there had not been that much change in several thousand years. Much of the time, stated simply, farming was done by a hoe hitting dirt. The hoe was held by a hand, perhaps that of a man but also perhaps that of a child or the child's mother. Much of the world by that time had such things as automobiles, tractors, telephone, even electricity. Often 12 years of school was easily available, with college a possibility for the bright or the wealthy.But in rural America, including rural Arkansas, there were mules and plows. On the farm here was no electricity, no telephone, no running water. The structures where people lived were very plain. There was no such thing as insulation. The heating was by wood stove or fireplace. There was very limited schooling. The only thing that kept this life from being unbearably hard was the fact that for the most part the people didn't know anything else existed.To this almost unbearably hard life we now add the Great Depression. And what was the Great Depression? The model for these subsistence farmers was that they would borrow money to put in a crop. You might not be surprised to know the loan was secured by their land but it was also secured by the other things of value they had, namely mules and harness for the mules. In Arkansas the family would work all summer on these little hardscrabble farms to make a few bales of cotton. How much money they would make was determined by the weather in general and the amount of rain in particular. Some years they would just make enough to pay off the loan. Some years they would make a little more and would be able to buy a little more land, build a bigger barn, etc.All the time they were raising the cotton they also were raising food to be eaten in season and canned for the winter. They had milk cows, egg laying hens, chickens for frying, etc. They did most of their own everything including sewing clothing, making soap, brooms, and on and on. It was a very, very hard life but it was doable.The depression disrupted the model in that they couldn't get a loan for the cotton seed and fertilizer. If they did somehow manage to make a crop in spite of the lack of a loan, then the price of the cotton was low because in general nobody had any money. The big reason why was that the banks had failed and nobody had any trust. The whole thing really ran on trust. The current economy does as well, but that's another story. Adding to these problems was that the weather in the 1930's was either too dry or too wet. Drought or flood. In Arkansas there was no feast, there was often famine. The American economy collapsed and the resulting cascade took years to play out.What William Downs Jr. has done is collect comments from the people who lived through these times. For the most part he did it while they were still alive. Many of them still are alive and if you want to talk to someone who was there, as this book will inspire you to want, you need to act with haste. Most the these people reporting were young during the times mentioned but they have a good memory for how hard life was.Things have not changed much for thousands of years but they have changed greatly during the last 100 years. The end of an multigenerational era is what Downs has collected. Downs is a scholar and has collected these comments in what we might call a scholarly manner. The presentation, as is fitting, is however only semi-structured. In other words, Downs has taken his scholarship and presented it in a very readable form.He starts with an introduction. One section is aptly entitled "Why the Great Depression Was Late Coming to Arkansas." As one born here I know that most things have come late to Arkansas. Sometimes that is a curse, but sometimes a blessing. Downs names the Survivors, as he calls them. He even has pictures of some of them. Reading the book you find yourself referring back and back to the names and pictures to check what county they were from, what year they were born. The meat of the book is 31 chapters with quotes from the survivors around one or another topic such as "Earliest Memories of the Great Depression," "Typical Chores Around the Home" or "Family Bathing Routines." Downs was good at deciding when a topic had been sufficiently covered and it was time to move on to another one. The end of the book just leaves you wishing for more. And that's how it should be.I will issue a disclaimer. I first read about this book a few months ago in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. I contacted Downs because from what the article said he at one time had relatives living on a farm in the same tiny part of Fulton Co. where my grandfather was born. It turns out that Downs and I are approximately third cousins. I gladly paid for my copy of the book right here at Amazon and my distant family connection may have increased my enjoyment of the book but I believe did not unduly affect my review. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Arkansas, an interest in genealogy or just an interest in "old times." I think that this book or something like it should be required reading for all students.I would like to throw in one last thing which is a recommendation for another book. This is a novel, supposedly rather autobiographical, that is largely set in depression era North Dakota. This gives the reader a continuing family perspective of life on a small farm and how the Great Depression made an almost unbearable life totally unbearable. The book is The Bones of Plenty by Lois Phillips Hudson, and in spite of the name not a third cousin as far as I know. It was published in 1962 by Little, Brown and Company. It has been favorably compared to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. In my opinion nothing compares to Grapes of Wrath but in the same vein The Bones of Plenty requires no comparison with anything to have earned it's place in American Literature for it is clearly literature of the most worthy variety. Lois Hudson died December 24, 2010 and is just one more example of why you need to be talking to these children of the Great Depression if you still have the opportunity.Review by Robert L. Hudson

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Buddy Boys: When Good Cops Turn Bad, by Mike McAlary

Buddy Boys: When Good Cops Turn Bad, by Mike McAlary

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A shocking true story of corruption and crime in the ranks of the NYPD in the worst police scandal since the revelations of Fred Serpico In the 1970s, New York City’s 77th Precinct was known as “the Alamo.” In Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn—neighborhoods notorious for drugs and violent crime—some of the worst criminals wore police uniforms and carried badges. Henry Winter was a good cop when he first entered the infamous 77th station house that was already infamous as a home to the dregs of the NYPD. Before long, he and fellow officer Anthony Magno found themselves deeply entrenched in the Alamo’s culture of extortion, lies, corruption, and crime—and they were regularly supplementing their incomes by ripping off thieves, drug dealers, junkies, and honest citizens alike. But the gravy train couldn’t stay on the rails forever. Winter and Magno were caught and faced a devastating choice: They could betray their crooked friends and colleagues by helping investigators expose the rot that festered at the Alamo’s core—or spend the next several years behind bars.   In Buddy Boys, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Mike McAlary blows the doors off 1 of the worst scandals ever to taint New York’s uniformed guardians, the men and women sworn to protect and serve the populace. Blistering, shocking, and powerful, it’s a frightening look inside the NYPD and an eye-opening exploration of the daily temptations that can seduce a good cop over to the dark side.

Buddy Boys: When Good Cops Turn Bad, by Mike McAlary

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• Published on: 2015-09-29
• Released on: 2015-09-29
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Buddy Boys: When Good Cops Turn Bad, by Mike McAlary

From Library Journal $18.95. law enforcement This book concerns police in one of the toughest ghettos in New York City who became thoroughly corrupt, stealing, dealing drugs, and extorting. Reporter McAlary follows the careers of Henry Winter and Tony Magno, who started out as good cops, and slowly became bad in a precinct governed by no rules and known as a dumping grown for cops who had "messed up." Once there, officers quickly became part of a gang protected by the Internal Affairs Department and their union. Eventually, Winter and Magno were caught and gathered evidence against fellow cops rather than go to jail. This scary book shows how easily good men can be corrupted. Well-crafted, fast paced, and thorough, it provides new understanding of an old problem.Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. As a NYPD Officer... By Blue Lives Matter ...I read this book shortly after its publication. At the time I was a rookie shortly after the convictions came down during this incident. I also grew up in Brooklyn North. Having been directly affected by this case, since my first partner was from the 7-7, as were most in my first precinct assignment following field training (NSU) in Brooklyn South. And befriending a central figure of the case, whose daughters were in my bridal party - I found the writing by McAlary one-sided. With the story of Henry Winter being the forefront, almost like Frank Serpico, which the book and movie were set on HIS account of the incidents, and no one else's.The reason I am reviewing this is, as a now retired NYPD officer, I am a mentor to young officers in the southern region of the United States.I wanted some of my young people to read this as a lesson of what is out there. Not stating that every single word is fact, or not fact for that matter in the book, I wanted them to see what the streets are like, and what could happen to even the most honest of officers. That no matter what the excuse is, corruption is not worth your career, and the destruction of your family, all for a few dollars, which in the end are pennies in the long run.McAlary lined his pockets pretty good with this publication, until his death years ago. After meeting him in person I realized what he really was...so in order to limit profits from his estate for this book, I purchased one to pass around to my students. This is what we did in the precincts 20-years ago. I'm sure the main character garnished funds from this as well until his death as well.I recommend the book, but just keep in mind who was telling (Winter) the story, and who was interpreting the story (McAlary) outside the quoted accounts from credible witnesses. Then make up your own mind of what is plausible, and what isn't.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. AWESOME! This book is dope. By Charlie Atan I couldn't put this book down. What a great look into the mind of your average New York City cop. I was very sympathetic with them. They really seemed like nice guys! I felt their sense of self-disgust that they had to rat out their fellow corrupt cops. It puts you right inside the patrol car and you feel like you're a corrupt cop going along for the adventure. This is one of the best true crime books I've ever read. If you want a look at New York City when it was bad, look no further than this book about New York's "finest." Whoa!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Wow!! By Ethics Commitee A real page turner. Very hard to put down. If you like true crime involving law enforcement this books for you.

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