Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Signed First Edition Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 25

known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor

Now in The Wise Man’s Fear

Includes author’s note

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Signed First Edition Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (SeptemberWhen a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a young black male, seemed assured. Accused of attempting to rape a white woman, Dick Rowland was with little doubt about to be lynched. But in another part of town, a small group of black men, many of them World War I veterans, decided to risk lives for a different vision of justice. Before it was all over, Tulsa had