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This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, executor for the
estate of John Howard Griffin (1920-1980), is based upon Griffin's
Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas
during WW II, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the
classic Black Like Me (Houghton Mifflin, 1961), now translated into
sixteen languages. During a decade of blindness, Griffin published
two novels and many short stories. His third novel, Street of the
Seven Angels, was published posthumously by Wings Press (2003). The
first two novels, The Devil Rides Outside (a banned best seller
that was adjudicated by the Supreme Court not to be pornographic)
and Nuni are Wings Press e-books, as is a fiftieth anniversary
cloth edition of Black Like Me. Griffin's Encounters with the Other
(1997) and Follow the Ecstasy, about Thomas Merton's last years
(1983), were published posthumously by Latitudes Press; Follow the
Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (1993) and Scattered
Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision (2004) appeared
posthumously from Orbis Books. Author Robert Bonazzi follows
Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a
lecturer on human rights. In addition to Griffin's Journals,
Bonazzi's sources include Scattered Shadows, interviews with Studs
Terkel, Mike Wallace, and other sources, plus the witness of
Griffin's widow Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi. The author completes
Griffin's story with Griffin's photographic portraits of Thomas
Merton, among many others, and his musicological essays.
On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation
that changed many lives beyond his own--he made his skin black and
traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of
discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most
important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever
written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition--which
is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and
added afterword--gives fresh life to what is still considered a
"contemporary book." The story that earned respect from civil
rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as
one of the great human--and humanitarian--documents of the era. In
this new century, when terrorism is too often defined in terms of a
single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black
president of the United States is subject to hateful slurs, this
record serves as a reminder that America has been blinded by fear
and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who
opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.
Essential reading . . . a social document of the first order, ("San
Francisco Chronicle") this history-making classic about crossing
the color line in the segregated South is a searing work of
nonfiction, a chillingly relevant eyewitness account of race and
humanity.
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El Paso Days (Paperback)
Elroy Bode; Introduction by Robert Bonazzi
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R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The thoughts, scenes, and observations gathered in this collection
written by an aging Elroy Bode concern themselves on the surface
with the daily happenings during a typical year, reflecting the
author's sense of kinship with the people, creatures, and beauty of
the Texas desert. Upon closer inspection, however, these short
sketches deal with the nature and meaning of life and the
inevitable loss of its pleasures, satisfactions, and
mysteries-especially in the context of the natural world that
surrounds him. The book ends with a long and powerful recounting by
Bode of the incredible circumstances surrounding the death of his
son.
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