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Laurence Leamer

Laurence Leamer

Laurence Leamer is a journalist and the author of more than a dozen books, including many New York Times bestsellers. Some of his previous titles include The Kennedy Women, The Kennedy Men, and Sons of Camelot. Leamer has worked for several newspapers, in educational television in Boston, in a French factory, and in a West Virginia coal mine, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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July 13, 2016

How a 1980s lynching case helped bring down the Klan

On the morning of March 21, 1981, the body of 19-year-old Michael Donald was found hanging from a tree in Mobile, Alabama. The years that followed saw the conviction of his two...