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OverviewOn a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants' headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner weighs his options and decides on a new plan. He will bomb the house. Let It Burn is the true-life story of the confrontation between the Philadelphia Police Department and the MOVE organization-a group that rejected modern technology and fought for what it called natural law. The police commissioner's decision to drop an explosive device onto the house's roof-and then to let the resulting fire burn while adults and children remained in the house-was the final tragic chapter in a decades-long series of clashes that had already left one policeman dead and others injured, dozens of MOVE members behind bars, and their original compound razed to the ground. By the time the fire burned itself out, eleven MOVE members, many of them women and small children, would be dead. Sixty-one houses in the neighborhood would be destroyed. There would be a city inquiry, numerous civil suits, and two grand-jury inquests following the confrontation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Boyette , Randi BoyettePublisher: Quadrant Books(r) Imprint: Quadrant Books(r) Edition: 2nd ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.531kg ISBN: 9781937868321ISBN 10: 193786832 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 01 October 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events. -Library Journal Compelling. -Publishers Weekly A solid report from an unusual perspective. -Kirkus Reviews A balanced view. -Booklist Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |