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The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story Hardcover – October 1, 2008
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- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publisherfire! Films and Books
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2008
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100981783708
- ISBN-13978-0981783703
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- Publisher : fire! Films and Books (October 1, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0981783708
- ISBN-13 : 978-0981783703
- Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,441,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11,388 in Black & African American Biographies
- #19,629 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #40,286 in Women's Studies (Books)
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"HOT OFF THE PRESS" Urban Media
Mangum, who infamously fabricated a story of being raped by 3 Duke lacrosse players at a party that she was hired to "perform" at, tells her side of the story in this book, still insisting that she was assaulted at the party, even though her story has been so thoroughly discredited by unassailable evidence that the North Carolina Attorney General not only dropped the charges against the accused players, but totally exonerated them.
The rest of the book is a recounting of her life prior to the Duke hoax. Mangum makes horrible decision after horrible decision, but never takes responsibility for her own actions, nor does she seem capable of learning from her mistakes. N. C. Attorney General Ray Cooper tried to do her a favor by not prosecuting her for her numerous false reports to police and prosecutors, stating that her history of mental illness may have compromised her ability to tell the truth from the fiction that she created, instead urging her to get help. Subsequent convictions for child abuse and vandalism, and now imprisonment while awaiting trial for the stabbing death of her boyfriend show that, again, this woman is incapable of learning from her mistakes.
I cannot recommend this book for anyone.
Working with Vincent Clark, a documentary film maker, this book is the story she would like the world to know about her. While there are two chapters about the events of March 2006 and one about the legal struggle that followed, the heart of the book is a six chapter biography and a final chapter on how she is putting this event behind her.
Her story is wrapped in three chapters by Vincent Clark who describes the Crystal he met in working on this project. A Foreword by Myra Shird, an NC A&T professor, looks at the broader implications and compares Crystal to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
If you are wanting to know what really happened that night in March 2006, this is not the book that will help you. If you want to know more about "the accuser" Crystal Mangum from her point of view, not that of the press or the Blogosphere, this is her story.
