God'll cut you down The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
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- ISBN: 9781481520850 (sound recording)
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electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2014.
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General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Tom Bromhead. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 300697 KB). |
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God'll Cut You Down combinesan unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinatingliterary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson.A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett wasbrutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named VincentMcGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. Butthen new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe it was a disputeover money rather than race--or, maybe and intriguingly, over sex.John Safran, a young white Jewish Australian documentarian,had been in Mississippi and interviewed Barrett for a film on race. When helearned of Barrett's murder, he returned to find out what happened and becamecaught up in the twists and turns of the case. During his time in Mississippi,Safran got deeper and deeper into this gothic southern world, becoming entwinedin the lives of those connected with the murder--white separatist frenemies,black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbors, the stunned families,even the killer himself. And the more he talked with them, the less simple thecrime--and the people involved--seemed to be. In the end, he discovered howprofoundly and indelibly complex the truth about someone's life--and death--canbe.This is a brilliant, haunting, hilarious, unsettling storyabout race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South from anoutsider's point of view. - Findaway World Llc
Godâll Cut You Down combines an unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson.
A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe it was a dispute over money rather than raceâor, maybe and intriguingly, over sex.
John Safran, a young white Jewish Australian documentarian, had been in Mississippi and interviewed Barrett for a film on race. When he learned of Barrettâs murder, he returned to find out what happened and became caught up in the twists and turns of the case. During his time in Mississippi, Safran got deeper and deeper into this gothic southern world, becoming entwined in the lives of those connected with the murderâwhite separatist frenemies, black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbors, the stunned families, even the killer himself. And the more he talked with them, the less simple the crimeâand the people involvedâseemed to be. In the end, he discovered how profoundly and indelibly complex the truth about someoneâs lifeâand deathâcan be.
This is a brilliant, haunting, hilarious, unsettling story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South from an outsiderâs point of view.