Al Sharpton

A Demagogue's Never-Ending Rise

Carl F. Horowitz

• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9798893154573
• eBook ISBN:
  9798893154733
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

In August 2014, a white police officer, acting in self-defense, shot to death an attacker, Michael Brown, a black youth in Ferguson, Missouri. Al Sharpton's rhetoric had much to do with the subsequent local rioting. This was nothing new. He had been applying his patented demagoguery to incidents with racial implications for decades, in his native New York City and elsewhere, under the guise of "justice" and "civil rights."His many prominent supporters have catapulted him to the apex of American life. President Obama and President Biden regularly solicited his advice. Major corporations continue to donate money to his nonprofit National Action Network. Public sector employee unions fete him."Reverend Al" is more subdued and dapper than in his earlier manic days. But that should not be cause for complacency. His proximity to power and regular news media presence make him ever more dangerous in these increasingly radicalized times.

Table of contents

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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Meet the Rev
• Chapter 2: Al Sharpton as Civil Rights Radical
• Chapter 3: Early Years, Defining Influences
• Chapter 4: Music, Microphones, and the Mob
• Chapter 5: Subway Vigilante
• Chapter 6: The King of Queens
• Chapter 7: The Girl Who Cried Wolf
• Chapter 8: Going Wild in Central Park
• Chapter 9: The Battle of Bensonhurst
• Chapter 10: Crown Heights Kristallnacht
• Chapter 11: Funeral Pyre at Freddy’s
• Chapter 12: Chasing Rudy, Collaring the NYPD
• Chapter 13: Burger Kings: Having It Their Way
• Chapter 14: Michael Jackson Agonistes
• Chapter 15: Six on One
• Chapter 16: Holy War on Don Imus
• Chapter 17: Sean Bell and Friends: Rebels without a Case
• Chapter 18: Vilifying George, Sanctifying Trayvon
• Chapter 19: A Freak Accident Becomes a Federal Case
• Chapter 20: Police Chokehold?
• Chapter 21: A Riotous Time in Ferguson
• Chapter 22: Railroading a Cop South Carolina Style
• Chapter 23: Bad Blood in Baltimore
• Chapter 24: The Hallucinations of Terence Crutcher
• Chapter 25: Where’s the Money?
• Chapter 26: A Presidential Campaign…and Another
• Chapter 27: Image Is Everything
• Chapter 28: Anchorman
• Chapter 29: Our Man in Washington
• Chapter 30: Life at the Top: The Big Picture
• Epilogue
• Endnotes