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The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America (Paperback)

By: Louis P. Masur (Author)


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Traces the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 photograph in which an enraged white man used an American flag as a weapon on an African-American, examining how racism, cultural beliefs about the flag, and the power of photography combined to capture the famous picture. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Sometimes a moment can change history. This one took 1/250th of a second.

Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman hurried to City Hall to photograph that day's protest, arriving just in time to snap the image that his editor would title "The Soiling of Old Glory." T he photo made headlines across the United States and won Forman his second Pulitzer Prize. I t shocked Boston, and America: Racial strife had not ended with the 1960s, it was alive and well in the cradle of liberty. Louis P. Masur's evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image in a tour de force of historical writing.



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