Photographs of My Father

by Paul Spike

Overview

A son tries to understand the violent murder of his father--civil-rights leader Rev. Robert Spike--in 1966.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941026243
Publisher:	Cinco Puntos Press
Publication date:	10/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Paul Spike: Paul Robert Spike is an American author, editor and journalist. He is the son of civil rights leader Rev. Robert W. Spike. He is the author of five books and writes about politics, literature, film, style, travel and food for a wide variety of U.K. newspapers and magazines.

Editorial Reviews

Intensely personal, informed and informative, Photographs of My Father by journalist, editor and author Paul Robert Spike is a consistently compelling read from beginning to end — and one that will be of very special interest for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the Civil Rights movement.” —Midwest Book Review

"So unforgettable that I felt my heart was breaking when I came to the end." —Paul Auster, author of The Brooklyn Follies

“One of the most remarkable books the [Civil Rights] movement produced is this 1973 family memoir, newly reissued with an afterword by the author. … Spike’s memoir is as compelling as it must have been four decades ago.” —Matthew Walther, The Spectator

“ Photographs of My Father has totally consumed the last couple of days of my life, unable as I was to put it down once started. It’s absolutely wonderful.” —writer Terry Gilliam, Monty Python

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