Money Rock (eBook)

A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South

Pam Kelley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-328-8 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification."e;-Atlanta-Journal Constitution"e;Kelley could have written a fine book about Charlotte's drug trade in the '80s and '90s, filled with shoot-outs and flashy jewelry. What she accomplishes with Money Rock, however, is far more laudable."e;-Charlotte Magazine"e;Pam Kelley knows a good story when she sees one-and Money Rock is a hell of a story. . . like a New South version of The Wire."e;-Shelf Awareness Meet Money Rock-young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer-in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history-by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic-of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. The saga begins in 1963 when a budding civil rights activist named Carrie gives birth to Belton Lamont Platt, eventually known as Money Rock, in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital. Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as "e;Maximum Bob."e; When the story concludes more than a half century later, Belton has redeemed himself. But three of his sons have met violent deaths and his oldest, fresh from prison, struggles to make a new life in a world where the odds are stacked against him. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies-racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration-help shape individual destinies. Money Rock is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.

Autor

A former reporter for the Charlotte Observer, Pam Kelley has won honors from the National Press Club and the Society for Features Journalism. She contributed to a subprime mortgage exposé that was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She lives in Cornelius, North Carolina.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Charlotte • cocaine poverty • crack • Crime • Drugs • intergenerational • New South • North Carolina • Race • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-328-6 / 1620973286
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-328-8 / 9781620973288