A Train of Powder: Essays

A masterwork of moral inquiry from one of the twentieth century’s greatest observers of power, guilt, and justice

In A Train of Powder, Rebecca West—one of the great literary journalists of the twentieth century—brings her crystalline intelligence and unsparing moral vision to some of the most contentious trials of the postwar era. Part reportage, part meditation on justice and guilt, this extraordinary book traces the tangled threads of law, history, and human frailty that define how we jud...