Willow Glen Books -- Women's Book Club (public event)

All women are welcome to attend Willow Glen Books' Women's Book Club, held on the fourth Monday of every month. This evening, we'll be discussing Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town by San Jose Mercury News reporter Harry Farrell.

In 1933 in San Jose, California, a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his father's department store. In the days that followed, the Harts, local and state police, and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI scrambled to outwit the kidnappers, whose demands kept them at bay until they--and Brook Hart's murder--were at last discovered.

Then the unthinkable happened: a band of vigilantes stormed the San Jose jail and hanged the two criminals in the town square as ten thousand watched. The San Jose lynching, which divided the nation, is a chilling tale of fear, fury, and the collapse of justice.

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posted by WGBA on 6/13/08