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Summary of Les Standiford & Joe Matthews's Bringing Adam Home
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A mother in South Florida went shopping with her son. She found a video game demo running, and her son begged her to let him play. She hesitated, but home furnishings was just a couple of aisles away. She gave her son a kiss, then hurried off to look for the lamps. #2 When a mother turns and finds her child suddenly lost from sight, she must not panic. She must retrace her steps and have the store announce her son’s name, so that he can find a clerk and report himself. #3 The Walshes, who were advocates for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, were questioned about why they had not been able to solve the case of their son’s disappearance. They had been asking themselves the same question for nearly 25 years. #4 On this day, Matthews could see that something different had taken over the Walshes’ demeanor. They had heard one insensitive question too many. They were asking him to go back through everything the police had tried to figure out over the years, and prove who killed their son, once and for all.
Bringing Adam Home
“[An] account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh . . . as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Small Mercies Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. The six-year-old’s 1981 abduction and murder in Hollywood, Florida—unsolved for more than a quarter of a century—forever changed America. His parents went on to become fierce advocates for missing children, and his father, John Walsh, served as host of America’s Most Wanted. From New York Times-bestselling author Les Standiford, Bringing Adam Home is a harrowing account of the terr...
Tears of Rage
As the host of the immensely popular America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has been instrumental in the capture of nearly four hundred and fifty of this country's most dangeroues fugitives. However, few know the full story of the personal tragedy behind his public crusade: the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam. Here, for the first time, Walsh, his wife Revé, and their closest friends tell the wrenching tale of Adam's death -- and the infuriating conspiracy of events that have kept America's No. 1 crime fighter from obtaining justice and closure for himself and his family. "I've never really spoken about these things to anyone before, but I want to talk about Adam before he...
Drone Strike
For the last twenty years America's drone program has provided the nation with an unparalleled advantage in the skies over every battlefield from Afghanistan and Pakistan to North Africa and Syria. But what if a foreign power managed to obtain that same capability? Not by developing their own drone, but by stealing one from the Central Intelligence Agency. And what if that country's leader, desperate to increase his influence in the Middle East, comes up with a plan to turn every country in the region against the United States? For his plan to work, Russia's president approves a daring daylight raid on a clandestine CIA drone base deep in the Jordanian desert. Led by the ruthless leader of a...
Inside African Anthropology
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.
Bitters in the Honey
he story of what happened at Little Rock's Central High School in September of 1957 is one with which most Americans are familiar. Indeed, the image of Central High's massive double staircase--and of nine black teenagers climbing that staircase, clutching their schoolbooks, surrounded by National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets--has become wedded in the American consciousness to the history of the civil-rights struggle in this country. The world saw the drama at Central High as a cautionary tale about power and race. Drawing on oral histories, Beth Roy tells the story of Central High from a fresh angle. Her interviews with white alumni of Central High investigate the reasons behind their resis...
The Outlaw Years
The Natchez Trace is remarkable in American history for the legends and tales surrounding it. During the first half of the nineteenth century, travelers--traders, settlers, andøthe occasional war party or fugitive from justice--followed its course from the Appalachians to the lower Mississippi, from Knoxville to Natchez. In this vibrant and energetic account, the author has mined both history and legend for startling tales of the near-mythical thieves, cutthroats, and confidence men once reported to have stalked their unsuspecting victims along this frontier trail--the terrible Harpe brothers, who came to a satisfactorily bad end; Samuel Mason, a thief done in by other thieves; and John Murrell, whose reputed schemes threw the South into a paroxysm of fear. Robert M. Coates retells the stories of these and other "land pirates" in chilling and ominous detail, preserving for us the tales once whispered on the edges of the dark southern woods nearly two centuries ago.
From County Line to Barbers Hill
From “A Halcyon Childhood,” to “Cars I Have Known,” the author has written of everyday things, everyday feelings, and everyday happenings in a little town of close friends, a strong community spirit, and a fervent support of the school system. It is a town of loyalty and love and faith. Many of the essays have been published in the local newspaper.
