The dynamic force of the unconscious and its refusal to be governed by will is often very exciting, but it also means that there is little escape from your own governing preconscious obsessions.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 2, 2003.
In 2003, the Chicago Tribune awarded its annual Heartland Prize to authors Paul Hendrickson and Scott Turow.
Hendrickson’s journalistic Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (2003) draws an unnerving portrait of racism’s enduring hold on society. Hendrickson spent nearly seven years researching the story behind Charles Moore's 1962 photograph of seven Mississippi sheriffs, one proudly brandishing a billy club, as they congregated on the University of Mississippi's campus on the eve of its integration by student James Meredith.
Chicago-based attorney Turow's novel Reversible Errors (2002) addresses the eternally unsettled issue of the death penalty. Set in Turow’s fictional Kindle County, Turow's lawyer protagonist represents an inmate on death row. Turow draws from his own experience as a trial lawyer and as a member of former Illinois Governor George Ryan's commission on the death penalty.
This program was generously underwritten by the Chicago Tribune.
Above: U.S. Marshal James McShane (left) and John Doar of the Justice Department (right) escort James Meredith to class at the University of Mississippi, January 10, 1962. Detail of photograph by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
