Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

by Heather Ann Thompson

A gripping account of the Attica prison uprising, a violent clash at the New York state prison in 1971. As the author has written: “Those who shaped Attica’s history were indeed individuals who could experience pain but also, at the same time, mete it out with ease. And thus, it was critically important to me, that readers see Attica actors not necessarily as sympathetic, but certainly as complex.”