Other books by Melissa Fay Greene available at GWM:
$17.99 Praying for Sheetrock
$22.99 The Temple Bombing
THE UNDERDOGS
Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
There are children so isolated—as a result of illness, disability, or calamity—as to seem unreachable.
But a profoundly solitary child may give friendship a try if the playmate and helper who shows up is a service dog.
The dogs dispatched to families around the globe by the non-profit Ohio-based service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, perform miracles of love and empathy.
And yet current scientific research into the emotional and cognitive abilities of dogs suggests these are not “miracles” at all, because intelligence, devotion, and sensitivity are woven into the very nature of dogs.
PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK
A Work of Nonfiction
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia–and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything and everybody. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man, Thurnell Alston, to challenge the sheriff and his courthouse gang–and to change the way of life in this community forever. “An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality” (Coretta Scott King)
AWARDS
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Winner of the The Salon Book Award For Non-Fiction
Winner of the QPB [Quality Paperback Books] New Voices Award
Winner of the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award
Winner of the Georgia Historical Society Bell Award
Winner of the Georgia Author Award
THE TEMPLE BOMBINGIn 1958, anti-Semitic white supremacists dynamited Atlanta’s oldest Jewish synagogue, whose rabbi, Pittsburgh-born Jacob Rothschild, was an outspoken advocate of integration. A trial of the accused terrorists ended in a hung jury, and a second trial in acquittal. The Reform Jewish Temple became a rallying point uniting blacks and Jews in efforts for racial justice, and Rabbi Rothschild (who died in 1974 at the age of 62) befriended Martin Luther King Jr., who in 1960 moved home to Atlanta, the scene of many critical confrontations in the early civil rights movement. Greene recreates these events in a spellbinding narrative written with fierce moral passion and a great sense of historic drama. By delving into the exclusionary policies and attitudes of Atlanta’s white Protestant elite, tensions within the city’s Jewish community, related terrorist incidents and links among right-wing extremist, racist and anti-Semitic organizations, she has reclaimed a forgotten chapter of the civil rights era.
AWARDS
Finalist for the National Book Award
Winner of the Southern Book Circle Critics Award
Winner of the Georgia Historical Society Book Award
Winner of the Haddasah Myrtle Wreath Award
Winner of the Georgia Author Of The Year Award
Winner of the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award
