I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! Paperback - 1997
by Robert E. Burns; Foreword by Matthew Mancini
The amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system. This book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was shackled to a chain gang for his part in petty robbery. He soon made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north, where for seven years he lived as a free man until his jealous wife turned him in to the police. Arrested as a fugitive from justice, Burns was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, but was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, he did the impossible and escaped a second time, and was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners.
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- Title I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
- Author Robert E. Burns; Foreword by Matthew Mancini
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Brown Thrasher e
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
- Date 1997-10-01
- ISBN 9780820319438 / 0820319430
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Georgia
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Library of Congress subjects Burns, Robert Elliott, Criminals - Georgia - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97014202
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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