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Title: Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal ISBN: 0-380-72766-8 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (29 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A well written book about our prison system.
Comment: Growing up in Philadelphia I formed my negative opinions of Mumia and his case without ever having researched his history myself. However, after the most recent Free Mumia march in Philly, I felt obligated to look into the case that riled people into such a frenzy. What I found was a case based on shaky ground at best, making it a jewel for human right activists. However, I still was not convinced either way of Mumia's innocence or his guilt. I picked up Live From Death Row hoping to develop a more informed opinion, one that was supported by my own experience with Mumia's writing. Surprisingly however, I found that the book did not deal with Mumia's case at all and instead focused on the social injustices that are acted out in our prisons every day. Mumia's anecdotes were insightful and intelligent, leading the reader to keep flipping page after page. At the very least, the book was an educational review of life in prison and deep look into the soul of a death row inmate. While I finished the book no more enlightened on the Mumia innocence/guilt question than when I started, I got a well written snap shot of life on death row. Mumia's writing will keep your interest and his intelligence and love for life shine through.
Rating: 5
Summary: Opens up your mind
Comment: The essays that Mumia writes here offer the reader an insight in the criminal justice system that you could only see if you are inside it. When reading this essays,the reader gets the feeling of depression, isolation, sadness and of despair that any person on death row might be feeling. To me, anytime that a reader can feel the emotion of a story, the writer has achieved a point. Now whether or not you agree with the death penalty, I think that you should read this book. It will force you to think about you position and see it justice is really being served. The irony now is that someone else has finally come forward and admitted to the murder that Mumia was convicted of, but Mumia is still in a life or death battle to be freed. I think that the reader will enjoy this book and be overwhelmed by the emotion
Rating: 4
Summary: free mumia
Comment: ....I enjoyed this book I read death blossoms previously...I enjoyed this book very much it made me so angry because I truly feel that he is in jail only for his political beliefs....but one thing I can say is that his spirit is not broken...and that is so beautiful....the main thing this book did was change my views on capital punishment at first I was all for it but those views changed I am now against it....free mumia!!!
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Title: All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan, Alice Walker ISBN: 1583220763 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance (Open Media Pamphlet Series) by Amnesty International ISBN: 158322081X Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Guerrilla Warfare: Che Guevara by Ernesto Guevara, Che Guevara, Marc Becker ISBN: 0803270755 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.89 |
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Title: Death Blossoms : Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience by Mumia Abu-Jamal ISBN: 0896086992 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.) by Assata Shakur, Assata Shaker ISBN: 1556520743 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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