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The Soiling of Old Glory

by Louis P. Masur
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Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston, made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer Prize. Acclaimed historian Louis P. Masur has done extensive research, including personal interviews with those involved, to reveal the unknown story of what really happened that day and afterward. This evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image to trace the lives of the men who intersected at that moment, to examine the power of photography and the meaning of the flag, and to reveal how a single picture helped change race relations in Boston and America. The Soiling of Old Glory, like the photograph itself, offers a dramatic window onto the turbulence of the 1970s and race relations in America.. A tour de force of historical writing that unfolds the story, and the meaning, of one of the most dramatic news photographs ever taken— a must-read for anyone interested in postwar American history. Louis P. Masur is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford. He is the editor of Reviews in American History, the premier book review journal in its field. His books include 1831: Year of Eclipse and Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series.

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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  • Release date: September 7, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781596918542
  • Release date: September 7, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781596918542
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  • Release date: September 7, 2010
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Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston, made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer Prize. Acclaimed historian Louis P. Masur has done extensive research, including personal interviews with those involved, to reveal the unknown story of what really happened that day and afterward. This evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image to trace the lives of the men who intersected at that moment, to examine the power of photography and the meaning of the flag, and to reveal how a single picture helped change race relations in Boston and America. The Soiling of Old Glory, like the photograph itself, offers a dramatic window onto the turbulence of the 1970s and race relations in America.. A tour de force of historical writing that unfolds the story, and the meaning, of one of the most dramatic news photographs ever taken— a must-read for anyone interested in postwar American history. Louis P. Masur is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford. He is the editor of Reviews in American History, the premier book review journal in its field. His books include 1831: Year of Eclipse and Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series.

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History Nonfiction