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Title: Photographs of My Father
Author: Paul Spike
Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma, and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the LBJ White House pass legislation and write crucial civil rights speeches. In the midst of what he described as "the dirtiest fight of my life" while struggling to save a federal Mississippi education program, he was viciously murdered in Columbus, Ohio. The murder was never solved. Very little effort went into finding the murderer. The Columbus police and the FBI hinted the unsolved murder was connected to Spike's undisclosed gay life.
During his father's rise in the civil rights movement, Paul Spike lived a life typical of a young man in the 1960s, finding his way through a labyrinth of booze, drugs, and girls. At Columbia University, he was active in the 1968 student rebellion and friends with many SDS radicals. That rootless life ended with his father's murder.
Members Reviews:
A masterpiece of the '60s, that lives today, in the almost equally tumultuous times we live in.
Can't begin to express how deeply moved I am by Photographs of My Father. Young Paul's personal coming of age story, his father Robert Spike's story, Paul's portraits of the crazy times in the '60s â the Civil Rights marches his father participated in; the behind the scenes political intrigues surrounding President Johnson's efforts to get Civil Rights for the nation; the murders of Martin Luther King, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and Reverend Spike himself. An absolutely brilliant, heartfelt, and well-written book. I also see it was written when young Paul was only in his early 20's, just a few years after attending the private prep school "Keaton" (fictitious name of a real place) and only a few years later after his father's murder. In other words, Paul sprouted into a first-rate writer while still a very young man. A five star work all around.
I would recommend it to anyone interested in the civil rights struggle ...
This book held my interest primarily for its historical insight and the portrait of such a loving relationship between a father and son. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. It also serves as a reminder of how the real truth can be supplanted by a more palpable "public truth". Whether or not the death of Robert Spike was perpetuated by our government for political reason is something we should consider. There should be little argument, however, concerning the cultural attitude towards homosexuality at that time and how it could always be counted on to be used as a weapon of negative propaganda. Up until recently I was beginning to believe that as a society we had become wiser to the ways we could be influenced and manipulated by such matters, but now I'm not so sure. Personally I couldn't care less about the sexual orientation of Robert Spike. What's there, and what his son has shown, is the portrait of a very compassionate man who was courageous enough to stand up to the forces that perpetuated racism.
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Title: Photographs of My Father
Author: Paul Spike
Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma, and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the LBJ White House pass legislation and write crucial civil rights speeches. In the midst of what he described as "the dirtiest fight of my life" while struggling to save a federal Mississippi education program, he was viciously murdered in Columbus, Ohio. The murder was never solved. Very little effort went into finding the murderer. The Columbus police and the FBI hinted the unsolved murder was connected to Spike's undisclosed gay life.
During his father's rise in the civil rights movement, Paul Spike lived a life typical of a young man in the 1960s, finding his way through a labyrinth of booze, drugs, and girls. At Columbia University, he was active in the 1968 student rebellion and friends with many SDS radicals. That rootless life ended with his father's murder.
Members Reviews:
A masterpiece of the '60s, that lives today, in the almost equally tumultuous times we live in.
Can't begin to express how deeply moved I am by Photographs of My Father. Young Paul's personal coming of age story, his father Robert Spike's story, Paul's portraits of the crazy times in the '60s â the Civil Rights marches his father participated in; the behind the scenes political intrigues surrounding President Johnson's efforts to get Civil Rights for the nation; the murders of Martin Luther King, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and Reverend Spike himself. An absolutely brilliant, heartfelt, and well-written book. I also see it was written when young Paul was only in his early 20's, just a few years after attending the private prep school "Keaton" (fictitious name of a real place) and only a few years later after his father's murder. In other words, Paul sprouted into a first-rate writer while still a very young man. A five star work all around.
I would recommend it to anyone interested in the civil rights struggle ...
This book held my interest primarily for its historical insight and the portrait of such a loving relationship between a father and son. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. It also serves as a reminder of how the real truth can be supplanted by a more palpable "public truth". Whether or not the death of Robert Spike was perpetuated by our government for political reason is something we should consider. There should be little argument, however, concerning the cultural attitude towards homosexuality at that time and how it could always be counted on to be used as a weapon of negative propaganda. Up until recently I was beginning to believe that as a society we had become wiser to the ways we could be influenced and manipulated by such matters, but now I'm not so sure. Personally I couldn't care less about the sexual orientation of Robert Spike. What's there, and what his son has shown, is the portrait of a very compassionate man who was courageous enough to stand up to the forces that perpetuated racism.