Praise for For All Those Men
“The 1922 murder trial of Emile Hebert is remarkable on many levels. Nothing, however, made this trial more remarkable than the stunning, surprise ending rendered by the all-male, all-white jury. In this novella, John Warner Smith masterfully brings Emile Hebert and his sensational trial to life.”
— Robert Mann, Manship Chair in Journalism, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
“Courtrooms are theaters. Stage props move around. Pathos yields to fury. Arguments are declaimed. John Warner Smith’s riveting drama of a young Black sugar farmer tried for murder while awaiting his young family from white assassins on the backroads of 1920s south Louisiana possesses all these elements and more.”
— Lawrence N. Powell, PhD, professor emeritus, Tulane University, and author of The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
“John Warner Smith’s novella For All Those Men is a suspenseful historical docudrama worthy of a major motion picture. It is an insightful depiction of an important turning point in Louisiana’s troubled racial past and in race relations in southeastern Louisiana in the early years of the Jim Crow era.”
— Rick Swanson, PhD, JD, Anthony Moroux/BORSF Endowed Professor of Political Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette