Charlotte Laws

Broschiertes Buch

Devil in the Basement

White Supremacy, Satanic Ritual and My Family

Beschreibung

Devil in the Basement reveals the shocking truth about my family. I learned about the murders, bombings, and devil worship when I visited my ancestors' hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia. As a former private eye, I investigated what had happened and even ventured into the eerie basement where the satanic rituals had occurred. The story begins in 1928 when thousands of Ku Klux Klan members march through this sleepy town. My great uncle Jal's passions were ignited that day, as were those of my grandfather Tucker, who changed his Italian name to "sound white" with hopes of escaping poverty and racism, and of becoming a U.S. Senator. Meanwhile, my great-grandmother set up a criminal enterprise in the back barn, and my great aunt was hauled off to an insane asylum before becoming the mistress of a Detroit mobster. But this story is not just about my family. It is also about their creepy neighbor Ernie, who had a ghoulish, life-sized doll. He abused his wives and dabbled in his favorite pastime: evil. He liked evil. He was creative when it came to evil. He was all about evil. Devil in the Basement is a story of love and horror, racism and hope, of Christian piety and satanic ritual. It is a book that shines a light on one of the most ghastly real life incidents in West Virginia history. It is a story you will never forget.

Autor

Charlotte Laws has authored a number of books, as well as over a hundred articles in noted publications, such as the Washington Post, Salon, the Los Angeles Daily News, Huffington Post, Gawker, and Newsweek. She starred on the NBC show, The Filter with Fred Roggin, and is currently a political pundit on BBC News. Laws has appeared on CNN, Nightline, Fox News, MSNBC, Oprah Winfrey, The Late Show and Larry King Live, and has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Post, the Guardian, and the New Yorker, to name a few. She was a Los Angles politician for eight years and has worked with the FBI. Laws penned the award-winning memoir, Rebel in High Heels, and was voted one of the "thirty fiercest women in the world" by Buzzfeed. She has a doctorate in Social Ethics from the University of Southern California, as well as two master's degrees (Social Ethics and Professional Writing) and two bachelor's degrees (Philosophy and Theater). She completed post-doctoral work at Oxford University, England. Laws is a well-known anti-revenge porn activist and animal advocate, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her three rescue dogs, and her four rescue chickens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stroud House Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780996133531
• ISBN-10: 0996133534
• Artikelnr.: 58043726