And All Our Wounds Forgiven
by Julius Lester
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When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, And All Our Wounds Forgiven is both a compelling political fable and a striking and tender love story about one of this century's most charismatic black leaders and the two women he loved.Tags
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A story about the Civil Rights movement focuses on a leader who is assassinated, his relationships with his Black wife and white assistant, and one of his followers. There is a very disturbing rape scene.
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"But those were the days when the media at least still understood the distinction between private and public. Those were the days when a man could act with integrity in the public arena while his private life was a paradigm of immorality." (p. 66)
A quote I liked:
"But those were the days when the media at least still understood the distinction between private and public. Those were the days when a man could act with integrity in the public arena while his private life was a paradigm of immorality." (p. 66)
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Julius Bernard Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1939. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Fisk University in 1960. He moved to New York to become a folk singer. He performed on the coffeehouse circuit as a singer and guitarist. He released two albums entitled Julius Lester in 1965 and Departures in 1967. His first show more published book, The Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly written with Pete Seeger, was published in 1965. In the 1960s, Lester was closely involved as a writer and photographer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He traveled to the South to document the civil rights movement and to North Vietnam to photograph the effects of American bombardment. He also hosted radio and television talk shows in New York City. He wrote more than four dozen nonfiction and fiction books for adults and children. His books for adults included Look Out, Whitey!: Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama, Revolutionary Notes, All Is Well, Lovesong: Becoming a Jew, and The Autobiography of God. His children's books included To Be a Slave, Sam and the Tigers, and Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, which won the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Award in 2006. He also wrote reviews and essays for numerous publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Dissent, The New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. After teaching for two years at the New School for Social Research in New York, Lester joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1971. He originally taught in the Afro-American studies department, but transferred to the Judaic and Near Eastern studies department when Lester criticized the novelist James Baldwin for what he felt were anti-Semitic remarks. He died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on January 18, 2018 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- And All Our Wounds Forgiven
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- John Calvin Marshall; Andrea Marshall; Lisa Adams; Bobby Card; Lyndon Baines Johnson; J. Edgar Hoover
- Dedication
- To Milan Sabatini evermore
- First words
- I do not know where the story begins, though i am integral to it, i am not sure i know even what the story is as neither my life nor death constitutes the story.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Elizabeth lay atop the grave like an answered prayer.
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- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
