Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder and Madness in the Heart of Georgia

by Richard Hutto

On May 12, 1960, as John F. Kennedy campaigned for the presidency, Chester Burge--slumlord, liquor runner, and the black sheep of the proud (and wealthy) Dunlap family of Macon, Georgia--lay in a hospital bed, recovering from surgery. He listened to the radio as the news reported that his wife had just been murdered. Police soon ruled out robbery as a motive, and suspicion centered upon the Ku Klux Klan, which two weeks earlier had descended upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599219972
• ISBN13: 9781599219974
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"