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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     More Content       More by this author     Duberman, Martin B.     Subjects     Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 -- Fiction.     Human rights workers -- Fiction.     Indians of South America -- Amazon River Valley -- Fiction.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Fiction.     Ireland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Duberman, Martin B.       by title:      Luminous traitor : t...       by call number:      FICTION DUB     Search the Web     Duberman, Martin B.     Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 -- Fiction.     Human rights workers -- Fiction.     Indians of South America -- Amazon River Valley -- Fiction.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Fiction.     Ireland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Luminous traitor : the just and daring life of Roger Casement, a biographical novel / Martin Duberman. by Duberman, Martin B. University of California Press, c2019. Call #: FICTION DUB Subjects Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 -- Fiction.   Human rights workers -- Fiction.   Indians of South America -- Amazon River Valley -- Fiction.   Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Fiction.   Ireland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780520298880 (hc.) Description:  279 p. ; 24 cm. Contents:  The years of innocence -- The Congo -- The Putumayo -- Ireland -- The trial and its aftermath. Summary:  "Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent exposure--for which he was knighted in 1911--of the brutal conditions of enslaved labor in Peru. An Irish nationalist of profound conviction, he attempted, at the outbreak of World War I, to obtain German support and weapons for an armed rebellion against British rule. Apprehended and convicted oftreason in a notorious trial that captured worldwide attention, Casement was sentenced to die on the gallows. A powerful petition drive for the commutation of his sentence was inaugurated by George Bernard Shaw and a host of other influential figures. Agay man, Casement kept detailed diaries of his sexual escapades, and the British government, upon discovering the diaries, circulated its p. to public figures, thereby crippling what had been a mounting petition for clemency. In 1916, he was hanged. Inthis gripping reimagining, acclaimed historian Martin Duberman paints a full portrait of the man for the first time. Tracing his evolution from servant of the empire to his work as a humanitarian activist and anti-imperialist, Duberman resurrects and recognizes all facets--from the professional to the personal--of the fantastic life of this pioneer for human rights"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION DUB Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION DUB Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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