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A New York Times Notable Book

Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian
New York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice

“Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” —Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post

From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era.

What began in spring 2020 as local prote...

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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

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