BOOKS: Thomas Cahill’s ​“Story of Dominique Green”

Bestselling author Thomas Cahill has written a new book, “A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green,” about his encounter and gradual understanding of the life of a Texas death row inmate named Dominique Green. Green, who was only 18 at the time of his arrest, was executed in 2004. Cahill’s story of Green’s life highlights issues of race, poverty, and abuse, tracing details of his childhood through his years on death row. Thomas Cahill is probably best known for his New York Times bestseller “How the Irish Saved Civilization.” This newest book will be published by Doubleday and will be released in March 2009.

(T. Cahill, “A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green,” Doubleday Publishing, 2009). The book can be purchased here. See also Race and Books.