Official Negligence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis S. Cannon
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: 1991-1996
- Setting: Los Angeles, California
- Principal Characters: Rodney King, Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Reginald Denny
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: African Americans, Justice, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, Police, Prejudices or antipathies, California, West, U.S., Trials, Riots
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
A journalist with more than forty years experience, Lou Cannon has been a correspondent for The Washington Post since 1972, and he is the author of six earlier books, including three sympathetic biographies of former president Ronald Reagan. Cannon was the Post’s Los Angeles bureau chief from 1991 to 1993, and he personally observed portions of the riots and attended many of the trials described in Official Negligence. In addition, his impressive research includes interviews with most of the significant participants. It seems unlikely that any future author will...
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