{"product_id":"money-rock-a-familys-story-of-cocaine-race-and-ambition-in-the-new-south-hardcover","title":"Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePam Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta-Journal Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is far more laudable.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pam Kelley knows a good story when she sees one--and \u003ci\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is a hell of a story. . . like a New South version of \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet Money Rock--young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer--in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family \u003cp\u003eMeet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 Maximum Bob. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003cem\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former reporter for the \u003cem\u003eCharlotte Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePam Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770625622304,"sku":"9781620973271","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/85a98ac27c114c10f75d589e67dfdb03.webp?v=1780375538","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/money-rock-a-familys-story-of-cocaine-race-and-ambition-in-the-new-south-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}