#56: John Archibald, Shaking the Gates of Hell

[kareila]

I'm giving myself permission not to finish this book after only managing to get through six chapters in six weeks. I have sympathy for the author, a Pulitzer winning local journalist struggling to reconcile his late father's religious career and overall admirable life with the fact that he failed to address the struggles of the civil rights era in any of his contemporary sermons and writings. But it feels like a pointless indulgence to judge someone for not making braver choices in a dangerous time, long after popular opinion on the subject has shifted.