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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 200 EAN: 9780971897403 ISBN: 0971897409 Label: Jefferson Press Manufacturer: Jefferson Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 281 Publication Date: January 01, 2002 Publisher: Jefferson Press Studio: Jefferson Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Describing himself as a "steeple dropout" and a "bootleg preacher" who also works as a "freelance civil rights activist," Will D. Campbell has earned a notable place among America's favorite storytellers. Detailing his harrowing exploits during the racially charged 1960s as a liberal white man of God, this memoir brilliantly describes Campbell's attempt to live a spiritual life in a time of mistrust, racial intolerance, and violence. Despite such a dire backdrop, Campbell serves as a guide through the events with his patented humor and poignancy. In one instance he notes that black Muslims protected the grand dragon of the KKK in an upstate New York prison, demonstrating the contradictions and strange circumstances that bring people together. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - christian maverick's memoirWhen he was seven years old Will Campbell (b. 1924) decided that he would be a preacher. Ten years later he was ordained, then took a pastorate at a small church in Louisiana. "It just didn't work out," he writes. Nor did his stint as Director of Religious Life at the University of Mississippi, where his views on civil rights were far too radical, nor after that his assignment with the National Council of Churches. He thus found himself with "a call but no steeple," a sense of failure, doubt about ... Read More Rating: - The first Hippy I ever knewThere are vague memories of Will Campbell, from my childhood days at St. Phillips Episcopal Church. I always knew that he was the Salman Rushdie of the Southern Babtist Convention but I never new why he was associated with the Episcopal Church until reading 40 Acres and a Goat. I recently hooked up with the Phil Rice the son of Father Charles Rice. My interest in 40 Acres and a Goat got rekindled during my search for Convention: A Parable, which I still have not found a copy of. Convention: A ... Read More Rating: - spread the wordI've owned this book for fourteen years...a real treasure. Have told many friends about it...this was done first by a Southern publisher; then in paperback, I think, by HarperCollins. Now, it looks like a new Southern publisher is bringing it back out in paperback. It's funky, Southern, religious, racial...abosolutely Southern and a must read. I recommend it to anyone who asks big questions about themselves and world and people around them. Rating: - Out of PrintThis book is out of print. It is being reissued by Jefferson Press (see above.) It's a great buy. DM Rating: - New Release Worth BuyingWill Campbell is one of the South's great writers and this re-issue of Forty Acres and A Goat is perhaps his best. This book, still in high demand, has an exciting new cover and should be read by all who love the South, goats and God. 
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