Sol Wachtler discusses his book, “Blood Brothers.” He begins by sharing the book’s plot. He explains that during the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Luke Lupton befriends T.C. Simmons. Since Luke is one of the town’s very few Jewish residents he feels alienated and relates to the poverty stricken outcast, T.C. The two boys later decide to become blood brothers. Wachtler goes on to explain that forty years pass and Luke has become a renowned lawyer and T.C. goes to jail for setting fire to a synagogue. However, when T.C. is put on trial for killing an African American man, Luke returns to Georgia to take his friend’s case. Also in this interview Wachtler discusses how he was concerned mostly with examining questions of truth, myth and justice. Wachtler shares that both he and his co-author, David Gould drew on their legal knowledge to write this book. Wachtler is a former Chief Judge of the State of New York and Gould a former assistant United States Attorney.
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