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When Good Men Do Nothing - The Assassination of Albert Patterson (Paperback, New edition)
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When Good Men Do Nothing - The Assassination of Albert Patterson (Paperback, New edition)
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A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story." On June 18, 1954,
former state senator Albert Patterson, the Democratic Party's
nominee for state attorney general, was shot to death as he left
his law office in Phenix City, Alabama, infamous for its
prostitution, gambling, bootlegging, and political corruption.
Patterson had made cleanup of Phenix City his primary campaign
promise. With millions of dollars in illegal income and hundreds of
political and professional careers at stake, the question
surrounding Patterson's murder was not why the trigger was pulled,
but who pulled it. When Good Men Do Nothing is the definitive study
of the Albert Patterson murder case. Alan Grady has mined the
state's original murder case files; the papers of John Patterson,
Albert's son; records from the Office of Alabama Attorney General
(who directed the murder investigation); the case files of the
Alabama Department of Toxicology and Criminal Investigation;
National Guard reports; and more than 30 interviews with
eyewitnesses and interested parties. Grady takes a complex story of
multiple dimensions--a large cast of judicial, criminal, and
political players; a web of alliances and allegiances; and a
knotted sequence of investigative revelations and dead ends--and
transforms it into a readable, incisive analysis of the powers and
loyalties that governed, and corrupted to the core, the body
politic of the state. Readers will be enthralled and educated by
this authoritative account of the most compelling crime drama in
Alabama during the 20th century.
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