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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: devil went down to Georgia
    sub title: race, power, privilege, and the murder of Lita McClinton
  name:
    name part: Landau, Deb Miller
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 244 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in cold blood in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hitman pretending to deliver roses on an early winter morning? Lita was an intelligent, accomplished and stunning Black woman from a respected Atlanta family. Her interracial marriage to white millionaire Jim Sullivan, who hailed from working-class Boston, was a newsworthy occurrence in 1970s Georgia. For a while, the couple made the marriage work, but it wasn't long before Jim's roving eye and controlling nature put Lita on edge. When he bought a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida (without telling her), the fȧcade of their life together began to crumble. Finally, after a decade of marriage, she loaded her belongings in a U-Haul and never looked back. But as the legal battle over the divorce raged and Jim's financial outlook grew precarious, he had a chance encounter with a long-haul trucker, a smooth-talking ex-con who said he could he'd "take care" of Jim's wife problem. In A Devil Went Down to Georgia, award-winning writer Deb Miller Landau details the shocking events that followed Lita's murder in 1987, including the surprising lack of evidence, racial bias in the justice system and the international manhunt for Lita's killer. Full of twists and turns, legal battles and the McClinton family's unrelenting dedication to justice, Landau's rigorous investigation is the first complete account of this tragic American crime.
  note: Deb Miller Landau.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sullivan, Lita McClinton
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sullivan, James
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    geographic: Georgia
    geographic: Atlanta
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Married people
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Atlanta (Ga.)
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: HV6534.A7 L36 2024
  classification: 364.152/309758231 B
  identifier: 9781639366835
  identifier: 1639366830
  identifier: 2024391602
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240723
    record change date: 20250627135403.2
    record identifier: in00005646100