{"product_id":"a-shot-in-the-moonlight-ben-montgomery-9780316535540","title":"A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. \"Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.\"(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad \u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a most anticipated book of 2021 by\u003ci\u003e O, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a \"must-read\" by the \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne of CNN's most anticipated books of 2021 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning's home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history -- one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story, and the unusual convergence of characters -- among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young, Kentucky governor William O'Connell Bradley, and George Dinning himself -- that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316535540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316535540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little, Brown Spark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2020 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/21\/2020","brand":"Ben Montgomery","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44049995956479,"sku":"9780316535540","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60570450-6b35-4276-a95a-5eb75a8c3b52.jpg?v=1685004591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-shot-in-the-moonlight-ben-montgomery-9780316535540","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}