Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Audiobook

Quotes

• “A taut, intensely readable narrative.”

  — Boston Globe

• “[An] excellent telling of one of the most difficult cases Thurgood Marshall ever argued…An important, and hopefully never forgotten, chapter of American history.”

  — Seattle Times

• “Suspenseful and historically meticulous.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Delivers the shock of a crime thriller.”

  — Associated Press

• “A powerful and well-told drama of Southern injustice.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “A chilling, atmospheric narrative that reads more like a Southern Gothic novel than a work of history.”

  — Salon

• “Deeply researched and superbly composed.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Very few books combine the depth of research and narrative power about a subject of such pivotal significance.”

  — Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White

• “In the terrifying story of the Groveland boys Gilbert King re-creates an extraordinary moment in America’s long, hard struggle for racial justice. Devil in the Grove is a harrowing, haunting, utterly mesmerizing book.”

  — Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

• “The tragic Groveland saga—with its Faulknerian echoes of racial injustice spinning around an accusation of rape—comes astonishingly alive in Gilbert King’s narrative. It is both heartbreaking and unforgettable.”

  — Wil Haygood, author of King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.