{"product_id":"9780820343013","title":"I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!","description":"\u003ci\u003eI Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!\u003c\/i\u003e is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice.\u003cp\u003eIn 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. \u003ci\u003eI Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!\u003c\/i\u003e is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111037747440,"sku":"9780820343013","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820343013_p0.jpg?v=1763743032","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820343013","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}