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EARL SWIFT
Journalist and author
“PROPULSIVE . . . THE EASE OF READING SWIFT'S EFFICIENT PROSE BELIES ITS ELEGANCE . . . THIS IS A MUST READ."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A POWERFULLY UNSETTLING PORTRAIT OF THE SINGLE MOST SAVAGE EPISODE IN THE LONG DECADES OF SAVAGERY INFLICTED BY WHITE SOUTHERNERS ON THEIR BLACK NEIGHBORS
IN THE 20TH CENTURY."
--Douglas Blackmon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Slavery By Another Name
"TRANSCENDS THE TRUE CRIME
GENRE . . . (SWIFT) OFFERS
A LOOK AT THE UNKEPT
PROMISES OF THE CIVIL WAR
AND RECONSTRUCTION, A
PREVIEW OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS
BATTLES TO COME, A SOUTHERN
COURTROOM DRAMA AKIN TO
JOHN GRISHAM AND A CHARACTER
STUDY OF COMPLICATED PEOPLE. . . "
--BookPage
"A GRIPPING, MEMORABLE WORK THAT WHOLLY CONFRONTS A HELLISH PAST THAT CONTINUES TO BLEED INTO THE PRESENT."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
IF KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
COULD SOMEHOW BE FUSED
WITH THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
AND DJANGO UNCHAINED,
YOU MIGHT GET SOME IDEA
OF THE EVIL THAT EARL SWIFT
HAS SO CAREFULLY DOCUMENTED
IN CHILLING AND ENRAGING
DETAIL . . . INCREDIBLY VIVID SCENES OF COURTROOM DRAMA."
--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Hellhound On His Trail
The 1921
Murder Farm Massacre
and the Horror
of America's
Second Slavery
HELL PUT
TO SHAME
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