Dead in Utah: A Story of Joe Hill (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Anti-union sentiments, the powerful Copper Bosses and political ambition converge on conroversial musician and union activist Joe Hill when he is accused of double murder in the winter of 1914. Thirteen year old Merlin Morrison is the only witness to the crime but he can't positively identify the killers. Members of the International Workers of the World clash with local law enforcement and only the big Captain of Police, John Hemple, stands between Salt Lake City and outright chaos. Lady Justice gasps for breath with every day of the trial. Did Joe Hill visciously murder John Morrion and his seventeen year old son? Do the judge and jury care if he is innocent or are they pawns of the mine owners? Join John Hemple in his Packard and let Merlin Morrison recount his very human story as he looks back at the case that continues to baffle historians and legal experts nearly a century later. From the author of Disposable People and Shadows of a Hero.