Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyModern · History, Nonfiction, True Crime
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
2016 · 752 pages · Nonfiction
67
Modern
★ 4.45 on Goodreads · 5K ratings
≈ 19 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2017). 4.45★ from 5K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
67Must-Read Score
- Critics63 out of 100 · counts 35%+25
- Readers71 out of 100 · counts 50%+41
- Buzz5 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Where it ranks
- #30 of the 220 history books we rank
- #36 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #118 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2017)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2016)
Reads as
True story, Gripping, Dark
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