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Author Greenlee, Sam, 1930-2014, author.

Title The spook who sat by the door : a novel / by Sam Greenlee.

Publication Info. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1990.
©1969

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  UF GREENLEE SAM    DUE 03-21-24
Description 248 pages ; 22 cm.
Series African American life
African American life.
Summary Both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 60s and a serious attempt to focuses on the issue of black militancy.
"A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. 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 Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel. As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal." -- Publisher's description
Subject African American men -- Fiction.
African American men. (OCoLC)fst00799236
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Satire.
Fiction.
Other Editions: Reprint of (manifestation): Greenlee, Stan, 1930-2014. The spook who sat by the door. New York : R. W. Baron Books, 1969 (OCoLC)32586
ISBN 9780814322468 (paperback)
0814322468 (paperback)
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