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Title: The Last Lynching

Subtitle: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town

Author: Anthony S. Pitch

Narrator: Brad Sanders, Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims. Often, in a show of racist violence, the lynchers tortured their victims before murdering them. Most killers were never brought to justice; some were instead celebrated as heroes, their victims' bodies displayed or even cut up and distributed as trophies.

Then, in 1946, the dead bodies of two men and two women were found near Moore's Ford Bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia. Their killers were never identified. And although the crime reverberated through the troubled community, the corrupt courts, and eventually the whole world, many details remained unexplored - until now.

In The Last Lynching, Anthony S. Pitch reveals the true story behind the last mass lynching in America in unprecedented detail. Drawing on some 10,000 previously classified documents from the FBI and National Archives, Lynched paints an unflinching picture of the lives of the victims, suspects, and eyewitnesses and describes the political, judicial, and socioeconomic conditions that stood in the way of justice. Along the way, The Last Lynching sheds light into a dark corner of American history that no one can afford to ignore.

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for listeners interested in history - books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times best seller or a national best seller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Great account of one of the darker events of history

Five Stars

Thank you.

Compelling Story of a Hideous and Historical Crime

It is not possible to read this account of a lynching in postwar Georgia without feeling a burning sense of anger with each passing page. On a summer day in 1946 four black people (one of them a decorated WWII vet) were lynched near the Moore's Ford bridge in a small Georgia farming community. The deed aroused strong national attention, particularly drawing the personal attention of President Harry Truman and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The scene shortly was over-run by local and state investigators plus a plethora of FBI agents. You would think such a formidable law response would produce the murderers in short order. But it was not to be. Fear and intimidation of the black community and a general campaign of silence in the white pretty much put the kabosh on meaningful testimony to a grand jury. In the end, no one was convicted of the crime. They got away with it. Today, 70 years after the obscenity, Pitch and others are trying heroically to find missing documents and pursue the case to its final accounting. It will be a long-shot. In the meantime, Pitch's book will remind modern readers that there once existed in America places where a culture of lynching of Afro-Americas was practiced and accepted.