num_pages: 409
description: Examines why Philadelphia authorities took extraordinarily disproportionate action against a group called MOVE by dropping military explosives on a residential neighborhood in May 1985.
language: English
title: Burning Down the House: MOVE and the Tragedy of Philadelphia
titlecomplete: Burning Down the House: MOVE and the Tragedy of Philadelphia
genres: Crime, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 24
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc