{"product_id":"money-rock-pam-kelley-9781620973271","title":"Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta-Journal Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kelley could have written a fine book about Charlotte's drug trade in the '80s and '90s, filled with shoot-outs and flashy jewelry. What she accomplishes with \u003ci\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is far more laudable.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pam Kelley knows a good story when she sees one--and \u003ci\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is a hell of a story. . . like a New South version of \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet Money Rock--young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer--in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family \u003cp\u003eMeet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history--by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic--of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe saga begins in 1963 when a budding civil rights activist named Carrie gives birth to Belton Lamont Platt, eventually known as Money Rock, in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital. Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as \"Maximum Bob.\" When the story concludes more than a half century later, Belton has redeemed himself. But three of his sons have met violent deaths and his oldest, fresh from prison, struggles to make a new life in a world where the odds are stacked against him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies--racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration--help shape individual destinies. \u003cem\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pam Kelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620973278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620973271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/28\/2018","brand":"Pam Kelley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989400289535,"sku":"9781620973271","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20e1c290-12fd-480f-88aa-9d470104fcca.jpg?v=1683299277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/money-rock-pam-kelley-9781620973271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}