Abstract
Abstract In his presidential address for the 2012 American Historical Association, Bill Cronon argued that the core business of historians is “resurrection.” Our job, he said, is to breathe life into the “dead past” and make it live again. There is no worse crime, he said, “than to make it forgettable.” Heather Ann Thompson’s brilliant and beautifully rendered book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising and Its Legacy offers us, among other things, a blueprint of how to write powerful narrative nonfiction with explanatory force that brings the past to life and does real work in the present.
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