The Devil And Harper Lee

Author : Mark Seal
Publisher : Scribd, Inc.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781645399728

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The Devil and Harper Lee by Mark Seal Pdf

In the 1970s, a mysterious man captivated and terrorized a small Alabama town. He was elegant and handsome, a charismatic pastor and leader in the African American community. But rumors swirled. Preaching on Sunday, people would say, killing on Monday. Far away in New York City, one of America’s most beloved writers was about to get caught up in the strange and violent tale of Reverend Willie J. Maxwell. Harper Lee, author of the modern-day classic To Kill a Mockingbird, was searching for her next book when the perfect story came her way: There was a man, the Reverend, who had allegedly murdered five of his family members, and managed to do it without getting caught. Thanks to the skills of his talented lawyer, he collected sizeable amounts of money from insurance policies that named him as the beneficiary. It was said the Reverend used voodoo to commit the murders and that his magical powers made him untouchable. And then, at the funeral of his most recent alleged victim—his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter—someone pointed a pistol at Reverend Maxwell’s head and shot three times. Mesmerized by the string of bloody deaths, Harper Lee returned to her native Alabama. She spent months in Alexander City, getting to know the town and the people, slowly pulling out the threads of this macabre tale. She found a story that only a writer of her caliber could do justice to: a modern southern gothic tale of death, fraud, superstition, and race. But apparently she never finished the book. After all that research, all the time spent tracking leads, speaking with crucial sources, and examining records, she dropped the project. Why? Acclaimed investigative reporter Mark Seal, himself an Alabama native, follows the trails of both the Reverend and Harper Lee, bringing the lurid tale back to life. He interviews key players, including relatives and other survivors who bear witness to this astonishing true story. One can only wonder how Lee herself would have told it. With The Devil and Harper Lee, Seal has woven together a new and uniquely American mystery.

Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062441782

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Harper Lee Collection E-book Bundle by Harper Lee Pdf

From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, her bestselling novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman available together in this convenient e-book bundle. Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, and featuring characters that have become indelible in American culture, Harper Lee’s beloved classic of Southern literature, To Kill a Mockingbird and its follow-up, Go Set a Watchman, offer a haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s and 1950s that resonates today. Enduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novels illuminate the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty, and will be celebrated by generations to come.

Author : Casey N. Cep
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101947869

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Furious Hours by Casey N. Cep Pdf

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062368683

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Pdf

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Author : Ingrid Ross,Ulrich Fiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3402028514

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Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird by Ingrid Ross,Ulrich Fiss Pdf

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440861284

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Reading Harper Lee by Claudia Durst Johnson Pdf

The first book-length study of Harper Lee's two novels, this is the ultimate reference for those interested in Harper Lee's writing, most notably as it considers race, class, and gender. To Kill a Mockingbird is timeless, continuing to be a favorite among both students and adults. One million copies are sold every year, and it remains one of the books most often taught in school. This companion guide helps students to better understand the complex themes of race, class, and gender that were first introduced in To Kill a Mockingbird and remain relevant in Go Set a Watchman, which both challenges and mirrors the topics discussed in Lee's first novel. A literary scholar and a friend of Harper Lee herself, author Claudia Durst Johnson brings a unique perspective to Lee's texts. The book provides a historical background of the Great Depression and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement as well as an analysis of the widespread censorship of Lee's works. Chapters provide important context for topics such as racial issues, women's issues, and class divisions in the Deep South and serve as discussion points that give students a starting point for their research; similarly, teachers who struggle with how to introduce students to these challenging but timely topics will appreciate the wealth of knowledge this companion guide will deliver.

Author : Donald F. Roden,Harper Lee
Publisher : Arco
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 0671006819

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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Donald F. Roden,Harper Lee Pdf

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Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307414236

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Brother Odd by Dean Koontz Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature. As he steadfastly journeys toward his mysterious destiny, Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fathers and daughters in literature
ISBN : 9781438114293

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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harold Bloom Pdf

Contains essays about Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird, addressing the novel's characters, structure, themes, and subject matter.

Author : Marjorie Stelmach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literature
ISBN : 1558630481

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Marjorie Stelmach Pdf

Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015079196336

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Screen Adaptations: To Kill a Mockingbird by R. Barton Palmer Pdf

"To Kill a Mockingbird "is an immensely important work of literature studied worldwide. Literature and film students will find plenty of material to support their courses on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focusing on several film versions and adaptations, the book discusses the literary work in its historical context, its key themes and dominant readings, how it has been adapted for screen, and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. R. Barton Palmer is a Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and a professor of film, screenwriting, and British literature at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is the author of many books on literature and film.

Author : Michael Harris
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780143193050

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Party of One by Michael Harris Pdf

InParty of One,investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Harper’s policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices. Harris argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information: he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. In the F-35 debacle, the government’s sin wasn’t only keeping the facts from Canadians, it was in inventing them. Harper himself provided the key confabulations, and they are irrefutably (and unapologetically) on the public record from the last election. This is no longer a matter of partisan debate, but a fact Canadians must interpret for what it may signify. Harris illustrates how Harper has made war on every independent source of information in Canada since coming to power.Party of Oneis about a man with a well-defined and growing enemies list of those not wanted on the voyage: union members, scientists, diplomats, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists. Against the backdrop of a Conservative commitment to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes the ultra-secrecy, non-compliance, and dismissiveness of this prime minister. And with the Conservative majority in Parliament, the law is simple: what one man, the PM, says, goes.

Author : James M. Smallwood,Kenneth W. Howell,Carol C. Taylor
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574417821

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The Devil's Triangle by James M. Smallwood,Kenneth W. Howell,Carol C. Taylor Pdf

In the Texas Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), many returning Confederate veterans organized outlaw gangs and Ku Klux Klan groups to continue the war and to take the battle to Yankee occupiers, native white Unionists, and their allies, the free people. This study of Benjamin Bickerstaff and other Northeast Texans provides a microhistory of the larger whole. Bickerstaff founded Ku Klux Klan groups in at least two Northeast Texas counties and led a gang of raiders who, at times, numbered up to 500 men. He joined the ranks of guerrilla fighters like Cullen Baker and Bob Lee and, with their gangs often riding together, brought chaos and death to the “Devil’s Triangle,” the Northeast Texas region where they created one disaster after another. “This book provides a well-researched, exhaustive, and fascinating examination of the life of Benjamin Bickerstaff, a desperado who preyed on blacks, Unionists, and others in northeastern Texas during the Reconstruction era until armed citizens killed him in the town of Alvarado in 1869. The work adds to our knowledge of Reconstruction violence and graphically supports the idea that the Civil War in Texas did not really end in 1865 but continued long afterward.”—Carl Moneyhon, author of Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction

Author : Michael S. Lief,H. Mitchell Caldwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781416571865

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The Devil's Advocates by Michael S. Lief,H. Mitchell Caldwell Pdf

From the authors of the acclaimed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, and featuring some of the most important cases in criminal law, The Devil's Advocates is the final volume of a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history. Criminal law is considered by many to be the most exciting of the legal specialties, and here the authors turn to the type of dramatic crimes and trials that have so captivated the public -- becoming fodder for countless television shows and legal thrillers. But the eight cases in this collection have also set historical precedents and illuminated underlying principles of the American criminal justice system. Future president John Adams makes clear that even the most despised and vilified criminal is entitled to a legal defense in the argument he delivers on behalf of the British soldiers who shot and killed five Americans during the Boston Massacre. The always-controversial temporary-insanity defense makes its debut within sight of the White House when, in front of horrified onlookers, a prominent congressman guns down the district attorney over an extramarital affair. Clarence Darrow provides a ringing defense of a black family charged with using deadly force to defend themselves from a violent mob -- an argument that refines the concept of self-defense and its applicability to all races. The treason trial of Aaron Burr, accused of plotting to "steal" the western territories of the United States and form a new country with himself as its head, offers a fascinating glimpse into a rare type of prosecution, as well as a look at one of the most interesting traitors in the nation's history. Perhaps the best-known case in the book is that of Ernesto Miranda, the accused rapist whose trial led to the Supreme Court decision requiring police to advise suspects of their rights to remain silent and to have an attorney present -- their Miranda rights. Each of the eight cases presented here is given legal and cultural context, including a brief historical introduction, a biographical sketch of the attorneys involved, highlights of trial testimony, analysis of the closing arguments, and a summary of the trial's impact on its participants and our country. In clear, jargon-free prose, Michael S Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell make these pivotal cases come to vibrant life for every reader.

Author : Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809309181

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert by Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans Pdf

Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.