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My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
Threshold
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
312 pages ISBN: 1476783705 EAN: 9781476783703 Kindle: B00LD1OLJQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The controversial New York City police commissioner and
bestselling author of The Lost Son shares the story
of his fall from grace and the effects of his incarceration
on his views of the American justice system.
Bernard
Kerik was New York City’s police commissioner during the
9/11 attacks, who became an American hero as he led the NYPD
through rescue and recovery efforts of the World Trade
Center. His résumé as a public servant is long and storied,
and includes honors from President Ronald Reagan, Queen
Elizabeth II, and the NYPD’s Medal for Valor for saving his
partner in a gun battle. In 2004, Kerik was nominated by
President George W. Bush to head the US Department of
Homeland Security. Now, he is a former Federal
Prison Inmate known as #84888-054. Convicted of tax
fraud and false statements in 2007, Kerik was sentenced to
four years in federal prison. Now for the first time, in
this hard-hitting, raw and oftentimes politically incorrect
memoir, he talks candidly about his time on the inside: the
torture of solitary confinement, the abuse of power, the
mental and physical torment of being locked up in a cage,
the powerlessness. With his newfound perspective, Kerik
makes a plea for change and illuminates why our punishment
system doesn’t always fit the crime. In this
extraordinary memoir, Kerik offers a riveting, one-of-a-kind
perspective on the American penal system as he details life
on the inside with the experience of an acclaimed Correction
Commissioner from the outside. With astonishing candor,
bravery, and insider’s intelligence, Bernard Kerik shares
his fall from grace to incarceration, and turns it into an
impassioned and singularly insightful rallying cry for
criminal justice reform in a nation that he devoted his life
to serving and protecting.
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