Description

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man’s search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932.

The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia’s brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

AUTHOR: Robert Elliot Burns

GENRE: Historical Non-Fiction, Auto Biographical

PUBLISHING: Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press 1997

ISBN: 9780820319438

PAGE COUNT: 257 pages

PAPERBACK

REVIEWS: “This was a cover to cover read within one night. Burns did an amazing job of telling his story and his words shined a very big light on what is wrong with the justice system of yesterday and even today. I recommend everyone give this book a read before gazing upon Burns’ uniform, housed in our museum.” – Jessica Burke, Troup County Archives & Legacy Museum