Volume V- Issue 9,  October 2006
Published by Llumina Press

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Unsettled Times for Atlanta’s Men in Blue….

Fort Lauderdale, August 2006:  They say history repeats itself. It certainly seems so, at least where the younger generation is concerned. Outrageous hairstyles, unkempt fashions, an innovative, unfamiliar vocabulary combined with a major attitude. These words can easily describe the younger population of almost every city and town today, but also rightly depicts the intensely motivated communities of young people in the explosive ‘60s. In Harold B. Goldhagen’s book, Signal 63: Officer Needs Help, we are presented with a variety of shocking stories and disturbing secrets of the times.

 A first-hand, non-fiction account of the drastic change in the socio-political climate of one of the most influential, fastest-growing, yet historically overlooked cities in the U.S.: Atlanta, Georgia – during  the Civil Rights Movement.

Starting in the volatile 1960's and spanning four decades, Atlanta’s epic is related from the perspective of one of the city's longest-serving police officers – a transplanted, opinionated, headstrong young man from New York City.

From self-effacing, often intimate anecdotes, to gruesome descriptions of rape and homicide, to previously-unrevealed insights into the corruption of the city administration, the author explores and attempts to resolve the personal and professional conflicts created by the effects of the Civil Rights Movement and its step-child, Affirmative Action.

About the Author:

Born and raised in New York City, Harold B. Goldhagen dropped out of high school at age sixteen to serve in the Merchant Marine and the U.S. Army. He joined the Atlanta Police Department in 1962, and retired as a Captain thirty years later. He now works as a private investigator.