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Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the international hunt for his assassin / Hampton Sides

By:

Sides, Hampton

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Doubleday , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 459 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780385523929

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

364.15224 SID

LOC classification:

E185.97.K5 S534 2010

Contents:

Prologue #416-J -- In the City of Kings -- Who is Eric Galt? -- The hottest man in the country -- Epilogue #65477.

Summary: April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.--From publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	364.15224 SID (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		038833

Includes bibliographical references (p. [49]-59).

Prologue #416-J -- In the City of Kings -- Who is Eric Galt? -- The hottest man in the country -- Epilogue #65477.

April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.--From publisher description.

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