Volume 20, Number 14 · September 20, 1973
Survivors
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Photographs of My Father
by Paul Spike
Knopf, 288 pp., $6.95
The Amnesty of John David Herndon
by James Reston Jr.
McGraw-Hill, 146 pp., $5.95
Though the events discussed in these two books took place more than six years apart, they give the impression of dealing with different aspects of the same circumstance. Both are concerned with the catastrophic effects on the lives of Americans of opposition to American policy. The Reverend Robert Spike was the director of the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches and a casualty in the same struggle for civil rights that claimed the life of his colleague Martin Luther King; while John Herndon is a largely unschooled Appalachian who deserted the US Army in Germany and fled to France rather than be sent back to Vietnam for a second tour of duty.
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