It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and the Lives It Shattered
by:
Don Yaeger (author)
Mike Pressler (author)
What began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers accelerated into a rape investigation-one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's disregard for the facts. In It's Not About the Truth, Mike Pressler, the...
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What began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers accelerated into a rape investigation-one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's disregard for the facts. In It's Not About the Truth, Mike Pressler, the former Duke University lacrosse team's coach, and bestselling author Don Yaeger expose vivid details, including the day Pressler was fired.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416551461 (1416551468)
Publish date: June 12th 2007
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I decided to pick up this book after watching ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary, Fantastic Lies, which provided a deeper look into the events surrounding the Duke Lacrosse case. As a Duke alumni, I realized that I knew very little about everything that happened and how the Duke administration responded t...
Just like the other Duke lacrosse scandal books, the book offers a lot of insight into the events in Durham around the Duke lacrosse scandal. There was a bias, as all the Duke scandal books are accused of, however, the facts are there. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the scand...
I had forgotten all about this book that I listened to while mowing last year. I stumbled across it on Amazon while looking for something else, and was reminded that I wanted to read another account of the incident: Until Proven Innocent Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duk...