Snyder's Letters

Sampson Orion Snyder born of an authoritative father is a man searching for a fight especially against anything he perceives as hypocrisy. He takes on racism organized religion his superiors or anything having to do with the establishment. This book is a collection of letters: those he receives and those he initiates. When he receives a letter from a Methodist bishop exhorting him to mend his ways he replies: If you must save someone save a Jew a Black Panther a Chinaman. Save yourself. But don't save me. I free you from all responsibility for my soul. I don't trust you with it. And he receives letters. From a racist: Rather than see my grandchildren educated in a mixed school I had much rather they were executed by a firing squad. From his grandmother: I even played around a little when I could--never with a minister even though there were some who wanted me to. You have to know that most of your Grandfather's hardness was in his head. <i>Snyder's Letters</i> is a sad but funny tale about a complex man whose initials portray a life lived in constant turmoil.