My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama [Hardcover]

My father, Martin L. King Jr., laudedJoe Beck's vivid account of a racially charged rape case in South Alabama in 1938 is a loving tribute to his father's courage as a young attorney standing up to the evils of Jim Crow. It is also a gripping courtroom dramawith trial evidence and testimony based on facts, not fictionthat draws a haunting portrait of a search for justice.In[A] a powerful telling of injustice in a less tolerant time.As a lawyer himself, author Beck lays out the circumstances of the case with gripping, almost cinematic detail& [F]ascinating.A poignant and warmly engaging memoir.An insightful window into the everyday life of small-town Alabama in the 1930s& A sad but gripping account.While this case may or may not have subconsciously influenced Harper Lee, [the author's father] Foster Beck's story is one worth knowing and full of lessons valuable three quarters of a century later.Joseph Madison Beck's enthralling memoir on humanity, justice, and the world we live in& is one full of emotion and suspense in equal measure.Joseph Beck's book is based on facts... and those details make his story fresher and more alive than [Harper Lee's] justifiably oft-told narrative.The story of Foster Beck, the authors late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of