Tulia [electronic resource] : race, cocaine, and corruption in a small Texas town / Nate Blakeslee.

1st ed.

9780786735464 (electronic book)
9781586484545
158648219X
9781586482190

New York : Public Affairs, c2005.

English

1 online resource (viii, 456 p.) : ill.

HV8079.N3 B55 2005eb

345.764/8380277

Those familiar with the travesty of justice that led to multiple bogus drug arrests in the small Texas town of Tulia only from newspaper accounts will be outraged anew at this eye-opening narrative that bears comparison to such courtroom and litigation classics as A Civil Action. This devastating indictment of the toll taken by the war on drugs, viewed through the prism of one small community, is a masterpiece of true crime writing. Award-winning reporter Blakeslee broke the story for the Texas Observer in 2000 and has produced a definitive account, deftly weaving the history of the growth and decline of Tulia with the stories of those caught up in the racist frame by narcotics officer Tom Coleman.

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