My Father and Atticus Finch

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Madison Beck is an Atlanta attorney. He also teaches at Emory Law School and has lectured at universities throughout the United States and abroad. Klappentext As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father's legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman. A lawyer himself, Beck became intrigued by the similarities between his father's story and Harper Lee's iconic novel. Beck reconstructs his father's role in the 1938 trial-much publicised when Harper Lee was twelve years old-in which the examining doctor testified before a hostile courtroom that there was no evidence of intercourse or violence. Nevertheless, the all-white jury voted to convict. This riveting memoir explores how race, class and the memory of the American South's defeat in the Civil War produced the trial's outcome and how these issues compare with the American literary imagination. Zusammenfassung A memoir about the author’s father, whose courageous defence of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Beck, Joseph Madison Beck, Beck Joseph Madison
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780393285826
• ISBN: 978-0-393-28582-6
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Alabama, LAW / Legal History, Memoirs, Legal History, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs