Covering Chicago in Flames & Turning Pain into Fiction - Frank S. Joseph
What happens when yourhometown collapses into racial turmoil, and how do you capture the unvarnishedreality of street riots when objective 350-word wire reports fail to tell thetrue human story?
Frank S. Joseph is an award-winning novelist, former AssociatedPress journalist, and author of the celebrated Chicago Trilogy (To Love Mercy, To Walk Humbly, and To Do Justice). Growing up on Chicago's South Side,Frank witnessed firsthand the disruption of white flight and the 1960sinner-city uprisings. Covering the West Side riots and the chaotic 1968Democratic National Convention street clashes, he…
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