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Solitary - A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) (Hardcover)
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Solitary - A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) (Hardcover)
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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION FINALIST FOR
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONSolitary is the unforgettable
life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary
confinement--in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in
notorious Angola prison in Louisiana--all for a crime he did not
commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of
extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he
faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey
within America's prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the
human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the
inhumanity of solitary confinement in the U.S. and around the
world. Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, inspired behind
bars in his early twenties to join the Black Panther Party because
of its social commitment and code of living, Albert was serving a
50-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when on April 17,
1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the
Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary
confinement by the warden. Without a shred of actual evidence
against them, their trial was a sham of justice that gave them life
sentences in solitary. Decades passed before Albert gained a lawyer
of consequence; even so, sixteen more years and multiple appeals
were needed before he was finally released in February 2016.
Remarkably self-aware that anger or bitterness would have destroyed
him in solitary confinement, sustained by the shared solidarity of
two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and
resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to
be broken by the grinding inhumanity and corruption that
effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. He
survived to give us Solitary, a chronicle of rare power and
humanity that proves the better spirits of our nature can thrive
against any odds.
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