Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore (English) Paperb

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by One World, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2020.

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"An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account."—Publishers WeeklyFINALIST FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore and governor of Maryland, a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the worldWhen Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an "illegal knife" in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated "roughly" as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover.In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw—it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention.Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, former White House fellow, and CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the nation. While attending Gray's funeral, he saw every stratum of the city come together: grieving mothers, members of the city's wealthy elite, activists, and the long-suffering citizens of Baltimore—all looking to comfort one another, but also looking for answers. He knew that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could be found only in the city as a whole. Moore—along with journalist Erica Green—tells the story of the Baltimore uprising both through his own observations and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young white public defender who's drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who'd spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John Angelos, scion of the city's most powerful family and executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, who had to make choices of conscience he'd never before confronted.Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history, which is also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath.

Author Biography

Wes Moore is the governor of Maryland. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore; The Work, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul Sunday; and Five Days, a finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award. He's also a former Rhodes Scholar, a combat veteran of Afghanistan, and a social entrepreneur who served as the CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, one of the largest antipoverty organizations in the country. Wes Moore lives in his hometown of Annapolis with his wife and two children.Erica L. Green is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times.

Review

"Moore captures the fear, anger, uncertainty, and hope of locals who saw their city fall apart and struggle to come back together. . . . Moore provides important context in the history of Baltimore's racial and income inequality and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account."—Publishers Weekly Previous praise for Wes MooreThe Other Wes Moore"A moving book . . . a call to arms."—Chicago Tribune"Startling and revelatory . . . a rocketing real-life narrative."—The Baltimore Sun"[A] compassionate memoir—a story that explores how some survive and others sink in urban battlegrounds."—People"Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a world where violence makes you a man."—O: The Oprah Magazine"Inspiring . . . a story for our times."—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children HereThe Work"Powerful and moving . . . I've known and deeply admired Wes for a long time. Reading The Work, I better understand why."—Chelsea Clinton"Wes Moore proves once again that he is one of the most effective storytellers and leaders of his generation."—Arianna Huffington

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"Moore captures the fear, anger, uncertainty, and hope of locals who saw their city fall apart and struggle to come back together. . . . Moore provides important context in the history of Baltimore's racial and income inequality and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account." -- Publishers Weekly Previous praise for Wes Moore The Other Wes Moore "A moving book . . . a call to arms." -- Chicago Tribune "Startling and revelatory . . . a rocketing real-life narrative." -- The Baltimore Sun "[A] compassionate memoir--a story that explores how some survive and others sink in urban battlegrounds." -- People "Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a world where violence makes you a man." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "Inspiring . . . a story for our times." --Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here The Work "Powerful and moving . . . I've known and deeply admired Wes for a long time. Reading The Work, I better understand why." --Chelsea Clinton "Wes Moore proves once again that he is one of the most effective storytellers and leaders of his generation." --Arianna Huffington

Excerpt from Book

Chapter 1 Saturday, April 25 Tawanda Tawanda Jones had been waiting two years to join this march for justice. Well, not exactly this march--it was not for her brother but for another black man from the opposite side of town--but at the end of the day, she decided, any black man is every black man. Freddie Gray''s death a week ago had breathed new life into the cases of others who had come before him, including Tawanda''s brother, Tyrone West. Two years on from her brother''s death, Tawanda felt like everyone else had forgotten the one thing she knew she''d never get out of her mind: the July day his body had lain on the sidewalk, drenched in pepper spray from the violent arrest the police said he deserved. There were two unreconcilable sides to the story: what the police said and what she knew in her heart. Their story: Her brother, a black man, large and hostile, had refused to follow orders and then struggled with them. They said that he was dehydrated and had a heart condition and died in the struggle. Her story: Her brother was murdered. She had been screaming her story into microphones and bullhorns every week for nearly one hundred weeks, in winter and summer, rain and sleet, armed only with posters of her gentle brother''s face, his eyes pleading to the crowd to pay attention. For more than seven hundred days she had been taking her cause to the corners. Sometimes she was with whatever small group she could assemble--family, friends, occasionally strangers with gripes of their own. Sometimes she was alone, shouting into the Baltimore sky. No justice, No peace. One man, Unarmed. Justice for Tyrone West. She called the protests "West Wednesdays." It had a ring to it. The news liked catchy slogans. And reporters from all the news outlets were going to be here today. Tawanda had been asked by Freddie Gray''s family to help lead the protest from Gilmor Homes, the housing project in West Baltimore where Freddie had been arrested, to City Hall. They knew about her commitment not just to her brother but also, beyond her own heartbreak, to the larger cause of addressing police violence and accountability. They respected her--the hours and days she''d already put into this work--and wanted her to stand with them. It was going to be the big protest to cap all the others that had sparked in the last week, ever since the news broke that the twenty-five-year-old would not survive the break in his spine. She had watched all the shaky cellphone videos of Gray being dragged by the police, and Tawanda felt her soul pierced every time she heard his screams blare from the television--not just in sympathy for Gray but for herself, for she wished she had gotten to hear her brother''s voice, even his screams, in his last seconds. But the videos were followed by a familiar script on the newscasts, one Tawanda recognized too well: Black male. Encounter with police. Dead. Tawanda had met Freddie''s mother, Gloria, at a protest exactly one week before the big march, while her son still lay in a coma at Shock Trauma. Tawanda was eager to give the Gray family something she had not been afforded after Tyrone''s encounter with the police: hope. "Don''t give up hope," she told Freddie''s mother. "He''s going to pull through. I''m going to be praying for your son." The following day, a Sunday, Freddie was pronounced dead. When Tawanda heard the news, she was heartbroken, thinking over and over again about the moment the day before when she''d tried to console Freddie''s mother, and for a moment Gloria had looked into her eyes with a flicker of hope. Tawanda decided then and there to dedicate the next West Wednesday, held outside the Western District Police Station, to Freddie. There had never been any citywide marches for Tyrone. But after Freddie died, the protests persisted for days, and Tawanda watched as the city was roiled by protesters shouting the very thing she''d been screaming out every Wednesday for two years: that the Baltimore Police Department was the biggest gang in America, with a license to kill with impunity. In the months and years prior to Freddie''s death, young men with similar profiles had met similar fates. In 2012, Anthony Anderson was walking in his neighborhood on his way to his East Baltimore home when he was confronted by the police, who ordered him to stop moving. He "failed to respond" to commands and was tackled by a police officer. That tackle--or, as the Board of Estimates called it, a "bear-hug maneuver"--left Anthony Anderson''s spleen ruptured and his ribs fractured. The internal bleeding killed him shortly after he arrived at the hospital. Initially investigators said Anderson died because he choked on drugs he was trying to hide from officers, but the medical examiner''s report dismissed that claim, instead pinning the blame on Anthony''s entire body weight slamming onto his neck and collarbone. The Anderson family was awarded $300,000 by the city of Baltimore. Even though the state medical examiner determined that he died by homicide, no officers were charged in his death. Tyrone West had an altercation with law enforcement after a traffic stop in Northeast Baltimore. He was unarmed, and the state claimed his death was due to the heat of the day and a heart condition. Once again the city and state eventually dispensed of the matter through a civil settlement, paying Tyrone''s three children $1 million. The details of these three cases were different, but they all have one crucial thing in common: despite the six and seven-figure settlements, not a single officer was arrested, indicted, or found guilty of having any responsibility for the death of these unarmed African American boys and men. The tension between law enforcement and the communities they were sworn to protect and serve had grown palpably thick in Baltimore. For many, the presence of police in the city''s black neighborhoods brought not a sense of peace or security but its opposite. The sound of a siren strikes a different pitch depending on which neighborhood hears it. Still, after the investigations and payouts, most of the community found a way to go on with their lives. Till the next one. Tawanda didn''t go on with her life. For two years she held a lonely vigil demanding true accountability for her brother''s death. But now everything she''d been saying was being amplified because of another death, and the world was watching. Maybe this time they would listen. Still, though, all of the time she''d spent protesting, sometimes alone, had left her bruised. There had never been any marches for Tyrone. That still hurt, even as she looked for a good pair of shoes and prepared for the march of her life. She couldn''t deny that part of her felt stung at seeing so many people in the city finally preparing for battle, but on behalf of someone else. For her brother, there had been only a handful of witnesses who seemed to care enough to speak up and speak out. Of course, there were reasons Freddie''s death was different, that it so quickly turned into a galvanizing moment instead of passing into painful silence like Tyrone''s. Portions of Freddie Gray''s final moments were caught on camera. Capturing video of police encounters is commonplace now, but Freddie''s death in 2015 coincided with the emergence of smartphones and social media as tools of citizen journalism. None of those other victims of police violence had images of their final moments, their bodies laid out on the concrete, broadcast to a global audience. Footage of police killings was starting to show up on people''s social media feeds raw, without being filtered through a controlled media narrative that adopted the police''s point of view and implied that the victims "deserved it." Our generation would be the first to interact with violent death in this new way--through the same small window in our phones where we watched Eric Garner screaming "I can''t breathe" while an officer straddled his back, yanking him to the ground like a steer, or a young Tamir Rice standing in a park as a squad car pulled up and an officer fired his weapon into the child, ending his life, or Walter Scott in Charleston, South Carolina, being pulled over for a nonfunctioning brake light and soon after being shot in the back while fleeing, contradicting the officers'' sworn testimony. Complaints about violent policing could no longer be treated as folklore or dismissed as exaggerations. "Our word versus yours" is less of a stalemate--where the tie goes to the state--when there is video evidence.

Details ISBN0525512381 Author Erica L. Green Short Title Five Days Pages 320 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0525512381 ISBN-13 9780525512387 Format Paperback Subtitle The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-04-13 NZ Release Date 2021-04-13 US Release Date 2021-04-13 Place of Publication New York UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2021-04-13 Imprint One World Books DEWEY 363.32309752 Audience General We've got this

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