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Victor of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History Victor of the 2017 Bancroft Prize National Book Award finalist Los Angeles Times book reward finalist New York Times notable book for 2016 Known as a best book of the year by the Boston Earth, Newsweek, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly The first definitive background of the infamous 1971 Attica jail uprising, the state's violent response, and the patients' decades-long quest for justice. On Sept 9, 1971, practically 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Service in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Keeping guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with representatives for better conditions during the four long times and times that implemented. On Sept 13, the state abruptly sent a huge selection of heavily armed troopers and correction officials to retake the jail by make. Their gunfire killed 39 men - hostages as well as prisoners - and seriously wounded more than 100 others. In the ensuing time, weeks, and weeks, troopers and officials brutally retaliated contrary to the prisoners. And, inevitably, New York Talk about regulators prosecuted only the prisoners, never once delivering charges contrary to the officials involved in the retaking and its own aftermath, and neglecting to provide support to the survivors and the groups of the men who had been killed. Pulling from greater than a decade of intensive research, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on every aspect of the uprising and its own legacy, giving voice to all or any those who had taken part in this 45-year battle for justice: prisoners, ex - hostages, groups of the victims, legal representatives and judges, and state officials and participants of law enforcement. Blood vessels in the Drinking water is the searing and indelible account of one of the most important civil rights reviews of the previous century.
