Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition : African American Life Series - Sam Greenlee

Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition

By: Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley (Introduction by)

Paperback | 1 June 2022 | Edition Number 2

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A classic in the Black literary canon.

Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film and television adaptations. A classic in the Black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in the late 1960s. With its focus on the "militancy" that characterized the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, this is the story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy in ways that make the novel autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a reaction to the forces of oppression, this book is universal.

Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Black Chicagoans to combat racism as"Freedom Fighters" in this explosive novel.
Industry Reviews

An important, original, nitty-gritty book.

--Dick Gregory "is an American comedian"

Blends James Bond parody with wit and rage.

-- "Time"

Deadly

-- "Newsweek"

The place names and people took me back home, but the scenes of police violence against protesters brings this book from a relic of the past into the very real present.

--Jeff Waxman "Literary Hub"

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