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socraticgadfly 's review for:
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by Heather Ann Thompson
Very good ... but maybe not great.
Among the biggest "gets" are:
1. Just how much information the state of New York, through various agencies, continues to hide, sit upon and sequester today
2. Just how much Rockefeller supported the "tough on crime" desire to forcibly retake Attica, but ... the "cover up" and other things afterward. How Rocky ever got to be that much of a darling of some liberals continues to amaze me.
3. The state of New York's continued resistance to civil damages to prisoners severely wounded in the recapture
4. The state's even bigger callousness to families of hostage guards injured or killed in the takeover.
Overall, other than a few factual errors (miscites the Agnew letter, per an Amazon commenter; calls Angela Davis a Panther, not a Communist), Thompson lays this story open, and narrates it as a good story.
Among the biggest "gets" are:
1. Just how much information the state of New York, through various agencies, continues to hide, sit upon and sequester today
2. Just how much Rockefeller supported the "tough on crime" desire to forcibly retake Attica, but ... the "cover up" and other things afterward. How Rocky ever got to be that much of a darling of some liberals continues to amaze me.
3. The state of New York's continued resistance to civil damages to prisoners severely wounded in the recapture
4. The state's even bigger callousness to families of hostage guards injured or killed in the takeover.
Overall, other than a few factual errors (miscites the Agnew letter, per an Amazon commenter; calls Angela Davis a Panther, not a Communist), Thompson lays this story open, and narrates it as a good story.