246 reviews for:

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

4.52 AVERAGE

msmoodyreader's review against another edition

4.0

informative medium-paced

babbysnax's review

5.0

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

dmhayden76's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

catlove9's review

5.0

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

meglybcoul's review

3.0

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Five stars for content, thoroughness, depth of investigation, etc. One star for being kinda really dry. So... three stars on average?

nardleclanger's review

5.0

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

smithmd's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative fast-paced

ericbdevil's review

4.0

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

anitahacker's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative reflective tense medium-paced

dellaposta's review

4.0

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Thompson details the events of the Attica prison riot and state retaking; subsequent state efforts at suppressing knowledge of these events; myriad legal battles fought by the surviving prisoners; and the activism and persistence that eventually forced a settlement decades later. Much of this is frankly pretty dry reading, but it’s first-rate history and Thompson has done a service by bringing this important story to greater light in all its excruciating detail.