num_pages: 408
description: From the team of reporters who broke the grand jury expose of the Tawana Brawley hoax comes a brilliant chronicle of the most inflammatory racial episode in recent years--a terrifying, sobering portrait of politics, the media, and an American tinderbox of race, prejudice, and fear. "On Thanksgiving weekend in 1987, in a quiet Hudson Valley town, neighbors at a graden apartment complex found a teenage black girl curled up inside a garbage bag, her clothes and body smeared with excrement and scrawled racial slurs ---- 'Nigger'.'KKK'.'Bitch.' She couldn't ---- or wouldn't ---- speak, but in scribbled notes, nods, and shrugs indicated that she had been abducted and sexually assaulted by white racists, possibly lawmen."
language: English
title: Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax
titlecomplete: Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Bantam