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Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution
By Archibald, John
- ISBN
- 9780525658115
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Reviewed on December 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Archibald (The Birmingham News) presents a memoir exploring his childhood in Alabama as the white son of a preacher during the civil rights movement. His father was a warm, loving, moral presence in his life, yet Archibald aims to understand why his father had "a good heart and a pulpit and an inability to use it." Using written copies of his father's sermons, Archibald traces how the ci...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
