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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. A literary classic, 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.
SAM GREENLEE was a writer and actor most known for his 1969 novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, which was produced into the 1973 film of the same name. He passed away in May 2014.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Sam Greenlee
Narrators:
Dion Graham & Natiki Hope Pressley
ISBN:
9780593293942
Length:
6 hours 6 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:
May 19, 2020
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#12,124 Overall
Genre rank:
#58 in Literary Criticism