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*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*

''His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.'' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

''An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.'' NEW YORK TIMES

You know how he died. This is how he lived.

Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?

The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man''s stolen life.

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His Name Is George Floyd

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    A Hardback by Robert Samuels

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Transworld Publishers Ltd
      Published 5/19/2022
      ISBN-13 9781787635838
      978-1787635838
      ISBN-10 178763583X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      *Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*

      ''His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.'' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

      ''An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.'' NEW YORK TIMES

      You know how he died. This is how he lived.

      Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?

      The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man''s stolen life.

      In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind y

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