[True Crime - Violence in Society 26] • The True American · Murder and Mercy in Texas
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- Authors
- Giridharadas, Anand
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton Company
- Tags
- nonfiction , retail , true crime
- ISBN
- 9780393244137
- Date
- 2014-05-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.38 MB
- Lang
- en
Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into a Dallas minimart and shoots Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant, maiming and nearly killing him. Ten years after the shooting, Bhuiyan wages a campaign against the State of Texas to have his attacker spared from the death penalty. The True American is a rich, colorful, profoundly moving exploration of the American dream in its many dimensions.
Winner of the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times , Boston Globe , NPR, and Publishers Weekly.