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Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South

Pam Kelley
4.12/5 (248 ratings)
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“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
—W.E.B. Du Bois

Meet Money Rock, a charismatic young man—and Charlotte’s flashiest dealer—at the center of a decades-spanning and eye-opening, riveting social history, in the tradition of Ghettoside

Money Rock is the gripping story—by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic—of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. This epic account begins in 1963 when Belton Lamont Platt (who would come to be known as Money Rock) is born in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital to Carrie, an activist mother. It ends with Belton’s sons, three of whom die violently as teenagers, and one—his oldest—who’s trying to transcend a criminal past in a world where the odds are stacked against him.

Veteran reporter Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as “Maximum Bob.” Yet Money Rock transcends the dramatic details, illuminating the power of family and the near impossibility of creating lasting change without reckoning with the sins of the past. This intimate journey shows the social forces and public policies shaping the choices of characters both brilliant and flawed, complex people whose lives are often oversimplified and undervalued. Readers will find in Money Rock a deeply American story, one that shouldn’t be possible, let alone common.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
288 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
The New Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1620973278
ISBN13:
9781620973271
kindle Asin:
B07HNC71SS

Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South

Pam Kelley
4.12/5 (248 ratings)
Read Download
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
—W.E.B. Du Bois

Meet Money Rock, a charismatic young man—and Charlotte’s flashiest dealer—at the center of a decades-spanning and eye-opening, riveting social history, in the tradition of Ghettoside

Money Rock is the gripping story—by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic—of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. This epic account begins in 1963 when Belton Lamont Platt (who would come to be known as Money Rock) is born in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital to Carrie, an activist mother. It ends with Belton’s sons, three of whom die violently as teenagers, and one—his oldest—who’s trying to transcend a criminal past in a world where the odds are stacked against him.

Veteran reporter Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as “Maximum Bob.” Yet Money Rock transcends the dramatic details, illuminating the power of family and the near impossibility of creating lasting change without reckoning with the sins of the past. This intimate journey shows the social forces and public policies shaping the choices of characters both brilliant and flawed, complex people whose lives are often oversimplified and undervalued. Readers will find in Money Rock a deeply American story, one that shouldn’t be possible, let alone common.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
288 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
The New Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1620973278
ISBN13:
9781620973271
kindle Asin:
B07HNC71SS

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