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    Grant Park
    Grant Park
    Grant Park
    Audiobook15 hours

    Grant Park

    Written by Leonard Pitts, Jr.

    Narrated by Ron Butler

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9781494584757

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    • 4/5
      A clear-eyed journalist who is not afraid to show emotion, Leonard Pitts connects the tumultuous Martin Luther King Jr. days with the Obama campaign, seamlessly, brilliantly. One is present almost every moment with him as he traverses from one time period to the next, arguing for and against race relations with the passion of a student, fact hammering of an attorney and authenticity of feeling only a man who has lived the experience can display.
    • 5/5
      Works both as a political thriller and a commentary on black/white relations. I teared up several times while reading it. It also made me laugh out loud more than once. It succeeded particularly well in illuminating my understanding of different points of view related to racial issues. Truly excellent.