Description
La 4ème de couverture indique : In September 1971, the inmates of Attica, yhe upstate New York prison, revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded - and were granted - the presence of a group of observers to act as ufficial mediators. Tom Wicker, then the associate editor of The New York Times, was one of those summoned. As time ran out, Wicker personally attempted to persuade Governor Rockfeller to visit Attica, but failed. In the end, a police attack was launched, and as a result dozens of prisoners and employees were killed.
