The Last Integrationist
The most powerful African American politician in America, Attorney General Melvin Hutchinson builds popular support through his uncompromising war against crime, until his own secret past leads to his discovery of a conspiracy within his own president's administration
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Jake Lamar sets his story in the near future - a time close at hand. America's war against drugs and crime has resulted in harsh restrictions and public executions. The prime mover in this war is Attorney General Melvin Hutchinson, a brilliant black lawyer and staunch conservative who as a judge was dubbed "Hang 'Em High Hutch." Melvin Hutchinson is on the fast track to a vice-presidential nomination, but he has a potentially explosive secret.And then there is Emma Person, a talented photographer who is having a difficult time understanding her Jewish boyfriend's insensitivity and his mother's hatred. Emma's black friends place demands on her that she struggles against, finding herself trapped between two warring camps - white and black - instinctively resisting the rigid definitions of both.Emma's story and Melvin's are told against the background of a country roiled by anger and hatred, a country that seems to have lost its soul while blacks and whites try to find a way to live together or live apart.
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