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Last Man Standing is an excellent biography. Olsen did a commendable job simplifying, expounding the bare bones of Geronimo Pratt’s legal battles, exposing and tracing the FBI’s involvement and their COINTELPRO actions. The book established a fine balance between biography and history. It possessed the flow, suspense and narrative of a fine ...
With the epic scope of A Civil Action, Last Man Standing is an unforgettable chronicle of the twenty-seven-year struggle to break a conspiratorial abuse of power and free one of America's most famous political prisoners. In 1968, twenty-year-old Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals and a Purple Heart into the most heated racial climate in American ...
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Jack Olsen. Doubleday Books, $27.5 (500pp) ISBN 978-0-385-49367-3
What would the world give back to you? Always less than you gave. Those verses, from George Orwell’s “Looking Back on the Spanish War,” could be an epitaph for the life of Elmer Gerard “Geronimo” Pratt, though the man described in Last Man Standing likely would reject the sentiment. Few have had more cause to succumb to ineffaceable bitterness.
With the epic scope of A Civil Action, Last Man Standing is an unforgettable chronicle of the twenty-seven-year struggle to break a conspiratorial abuse of power and free one of America's most famous political prisoners. In 1968, twenty-year-old Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals and a Purple Heart into the most heated racial climate in American ...
Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history.. Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As a UCLA student, though, he had led the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and became a ...
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