{"product_id":"the-confessions-of-matthew-strong-hardcover","title":"The Confessions of Matthew Strong - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOusmane Power-Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York--the same night her grandmother dies--or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared. But for our purposes Allie's story begins at the end, when she is finally ready to tell her version of what happened with a white supremacist named Matthew Strong.\u003cbr\u003e From the beginning, Allie had the clues: in a spate of possibly connected disappearances of other young Black women; in a series of recently restored plantation homes; in letters outlining an uprising; in maps of slave trade routes and old estates; in hidden caves and buried tunnels; and finally, in a confessional that should never have existed. They just have to make a case strong enough for the FBI and police to listen. This is when Allie herself disappears.\u003cbr\u003e Allie is a survivor. She survived the newly post-Jim Crow south, she survived cancer, and she will survive being stalked and kidnapped by Matthew Strong, who seeks to ignite a revolution. The surprise in this doesn't lie in the question of \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c\/i\u003e she be taken; it lies in \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e she and her community outsmart a tactical madman.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOusmane K. Power-Greene\u003c\/b\u003e is the Program Director of Africana Studies and an Associate Professor of History at Clark University. Power-Greene is the author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement\u003c\/i\u003e, and his writing appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters\u003c\/i\u003e. He's been featured on \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e, C-SPAN Book TV, and NPR's history podcast \u003ci\u003eThroughline\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766562423072,"sku":"9781635422085","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f32c4c840d5b36fa8ae2d66a17daff48.webp?v=1780294705","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-confessions-of-matthew-strong-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}