Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

by Gilbert King

Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"A must-read, cannot-put-down history." -- Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061792268
• ISBN13: 9780061792267
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Devil in the Grove, is very informative and exciting to know Thurgood Marshall is a very fine person

Anyone could read this book, has a lot of history in it, the life Thurgood Marshall lived was also terrifying