Hand to Mouth, Tirado, Linda

Автор: Tirado-Chiodini Yasmin
Название: La Voluntad de Antonio: Una Historia de Sacrificio, Amor, Tragedia E Injusticia
ISBN: 0998421715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998421711
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Цена: 17230.00 T
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Описание: En el 1870, cuando ten a apenas 14 a os, Manuel Pont n Fern ndez emigra de Espa a a Puerto Rico, se adapta a una nueva cultura y enfrenta huracanes, enfermedades y guerra para convertirse en un prominente plantador de tabaco y levantar una bonita familia. Con profundas esperanzas, Manuel env a a su hijo Antonio a estudiar derecho en Albany Law School en Nueva York, pero el joven pierde su voluntad, comete un atroz crimen y es ejecutado en la silla el ctrica en la prisi n de Sing Sing. El esp ritu de Antonio regresa cien a os despu s para persuadir a un miembro de la familia, quien es abogada y genealogista aficionada, para investigar su injusta ejecuci n. En un trasfondo hist rico, cultural y jur dico que abarca tres pa ses y m s de un siglo, LA VOLUNTAD DE ANTONIO expone los tr gicos acontecimientos: el asesinato, los errores del juicio, la desolaci n en la prisi n de Sing Sing, las s plicas de toda una isla para salvarlo y su injusta ejecuci n. sta es la historia de Manuel y de Antonio, pero tambi n es un llamado a la igualdad de justicia para todo ser humano.

Автор: Tirado-Chiodini Yasmin
Название: Antonio`s Grace: An Island`s Plea for a Native Son
ISBN: 0981730795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780981730790
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Цена: 19530.00 T
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Описание: On January 7, 1916, Antonio Pont n, a Puerto Rican student at Albany Law School who suffered from mental illness, became the first Hispanic executed in the electric chair at the Sing Sing Prison in New York. Author Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini tells a fictionalized account of Pont n's story in her historical novel ANTONIO'S WILL, A Story of Sacrifice, Love, Tragedy and Injustice, the first book in The Antonio's Series. This second book, ANTONIO'S GRACE, An Island's Plea for a Native Son, is a work of non-fiction in which the author takes a closer look at the trial and clemency process in the Pont n case. In it, she shares photographs and a selection of the thousands of documents she found, containing clemency writings endorsed by over 21,000 people who prayed in vain for grace for Pont n. Tirado-Chiodini's research and analysis of the case one hundred years later uncover the injustices surrounding Pont n's murder trial and examine the viability of the death penalty as a just measure. The names and voices of clemency have returned after a century to plead once again for an island's native son. Will you listen? BONUS: The book's Appendix includes a transcription by the author of over 21,000 names of individuals and organizations who signed clemency petitions in the case, an invaluable resource for academics, historians, and genealogists.

Автор: Tirado-Chiodini Yasmin
Название: Antonio`s Will
ISBN: 0981730779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780981730776
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 14930.00 T
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