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Julian Rubinstein

Goodreads Author

Born

Bronx, The United States

Website

http://www.thehollybook.com

Twitter

julian_rubinste

Genre

Nonfiction, Crime, Mystery

Member Since

November 2007

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Julian Rubinstein is an Emmy and IRE award-winning author, documentary filmmaker and educator.

In March, 2025, he won a national Emmy for directing and producing THE HOLLY, a documentary he filmed while working on his New York Times Editors' Choice book, The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, published by FSG in 2021. The book was the winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award, the 2022 High Plains Book Award and a New York Times Editors' Choice. Booklist, which named it to its Best Books of 2021, called it "a shattering piece of investigative journalism involving street gangs, race relations and law enforcement."

The documentary film is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple Plus.

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Was Terrance Roberts – former gang leader and co-leader of the Justice For Elijah McClain Movement – attacked by police informants?

COMING MAY 11 from @fsgbooks: THE HOLLY: Five Bullets, One Gun and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood.

“An unforgettable tale you won’t hear in the mainstream media and a riveting wake-up call to activists, community organizers, and criminal justice advocates

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Average rating: 4.06 · 6,508 ratings · 978 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts 4.01 avg rating — 5,613 ratings — published 2004 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood 4.35 avg rating — 894 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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