It's Not About the Truth
It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered Don Yaeger, Mike Pressler (Contributor)
Publisher: Threshold Editions
ISBN: 1416551492
DDC: 364.153209756563
Edition: Paperback; 2008-06-03
Summary:
Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray
Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year
career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse
team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted
forward.It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's
darkest hour had arrived in an unexpected and explosive
announcement.Pressler, a three-time ACC Coach of the Year, informed
his team that its season was canceled and he had "resigned,"
effective immediately. While his words reverberated off the walls,
hysteria erupted. Players cried, confused over a course of events
that had spun wildly out of control. What began as an off-campus team
party with two hired strippers had accelerated into a rape
investigation -- one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy
police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's
disregard for the facts -- dividing both a prestigious university and
the city of Durham.Wiping away tears, Pressler demonstrated the
steely resolve that helped him win more than two hundred games. For
the next thirty minutes, Pressler put his personal situation aside
and encouraged his players to stick together. He also made a bold
promise: "One day, we will get a chance to tell the world the truth.
One day."This is that day.Pressler, who has not done an interview
since the saga began, has handed his private diary from those three
weeks to New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger, exposing vivid
details, including the day Pressler was fired, when the coach asked
Athletic Director Joe Alleva why the school "wasn't willing to wait
for the truth" to come out. "It's not about the truth anymore,"
Alleva said to the coach in a signature moment that said it all. In
addition to Pressler, Yaeger interviewed more than seventy-five key
figures intimately involved in the case. The result is a tale that
defies logic."It is tough to be one of fifty people who believed a
story when fifty million people believed something else," Pressler
said. "This wasn't about the truth to many of the others involved. My
story is all about the truth."
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