{"product_id":"the-organ-thieves-chip-jones-9781982107536","title":"The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South","description":"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this \"startling...powerful\" (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, \"this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice\" (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chip Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1982107537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982107536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery\/Jeter Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Chip Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052062306559,"sku":"9781982107536","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0fdd3c61-c8c7-40cc-9e87-e0ede023d5ec.jpg?v=1685016744","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-organ-thieves-chip-jones-9781982107536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}