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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town Paperback – September 30, 2006

by Nate Blakeslee (Author)

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This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles . . . a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird -- or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won" (New York Times Book Review)

In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of one police officer. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years.

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas prize for excellence in nonfiction, Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions. But the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. As Tulia makes clear, these events are the latest chapter in a story with themes as old as the country itself. It is a gripping, marvelously well-told tale about injustice, race, poverty, hysteria, and desperation in rural America.
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  1. Print length
    480 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    September 30, 2006
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 1.21 x 8.25 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1586484540
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1586484545
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"A devastating critique of Texas' judicial system and the nation's drug laws. But it is foremost a riveting legal thriller about the inspirational men and women-including those in and around Tulia-who refused to let the injustice stand. Atticus Finch, after all, was from a small Southern town, too. And Tulia, in Blakeslee's rich and deeply satisfying telling, resembles nothing so much as a modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird."
―Sara Mosle, The New York Times Book Review

"Blakeslee's excellent and eminently readable book is a wonderful story of justice triumphant... his vivid portrait of law enforcement gone wrong suggests that there are more Tulias than there are lawyers dedicated enough to expose them."
―David Garrow, The Washington Post Book World

"A first-rate piece of 'injustice' journalism, the kind of book that outrages while it fascinates. . .. A prime example of true crime reporting. The bonus is that it may be second only to Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights as a slice of hardscrabble Panhandle life. . . . A dramatic, David-vs.-Goliath story."
―Jerome Weeks, Dallas Morning News

"[Blakeslee's] reporting . . . is superb."
―Steve Weinberg, San Francisco Chronicle

"Blakeslee's book is a cautionary tale; a fine example of true-crime reportage crafted of practical prose, reminding us that in the absence of practical solutions to our social ills, the tragedy in Tulia will never be considered a mere aberration."
―Austin Chronicle

"Reporting at its very best."―Tucson Citizen

"The story of Tulia is about much more than even the subtitle of Blakeslee's book suggests. It's about America writ large. That's the real story that Blakeslee found in the Panhandle."
―Barbara Belejack, Texas Observer

"[An] eye popping book of reportage."
―Newark Star-Ledger

"Those familiar with the travesty of justice that led to multiple bogus drug arrests in the small Texas town of Tulia only from newspaper accounts will be outraged anew at this eye-opening narrative that bears comparison to such courtroom and litigation classics as A Civil Action.... A masterpiece of true crime writing."
―Publishers Weekly

"Blakeslee's prose is crystalline....Blakeslee's portrait of Tulia-a place where white and black live side by side but separately and warily-is indelible."―Mother Jones

About the Author

Nate Blakeslee is the author of American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West and Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters best book of nonfiction prize. Blakeslee is a contributing writer for Texas Monthly, where he served as a senior editor for nine years, writing about politics, criminal justice, and environmental issues. Previously, he was the editor of the Texas Observer. Blakeslee was born and raised in Arlington, Texas. He has a Masters of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin with his wife and their two children.

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Nate Blakeslee is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly. His first book, Tulia, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters nonfiction prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. The Washington Post called Tulia one of the most important books about wrongful convictions ever written. Blakeslee lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.