Spook Who Sat by the Door Second Edition

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(233 236 239 0.62); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Spook Who Sat by the Door</em><span style=background-color: rgba(233 236 239 0.62); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(233 236 239 0.62); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p>