A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt by Tom Wicker [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1976 • Ballantine

A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt by Tom Wicker

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1976] BALLANTINE BOOKS 

1st mass market paperback printing w/ photo insert and vintage newspaper clipping of book review.

Vintage mass market paperback in very good reading condition.

Cover shows creasing; heavy surface scuffs to rear; mild read-crease to spine.

Reads good as new.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Finalist for the National Book Award and Winner of the Edgar Award for best Fact Crime.

A Time To Die compels us to understand the inhumanity of prisons in America, one of the greatest injustices of our time, and of a state that has no compunction about murdering prisoners and jailers alike. Think Attica forty years ago, think Pelican Bay today. Then act."—Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights

In September 1971 the inmates of Attica prison revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded—and were granted—the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators. Tom Wicker, then the associate editor of The New York Times, was one of those summoned. In four crucial days, he learned more, saw more, and felt more than in most of the rest of his life. In the end, a police attack was launched, and as a result dozens of prisoners, as well as prison employees, were killed.

Tom Wicker, a former reporter, Washington bureau chief, and columnist for The New York Times, is the author of several books, including On the Record. He lives in Rochester, Vermont.