This novel details the life of David Champlin, a Negro born in poverty in New Orleans in the depression, through his escape to college in the North and finally to Oxford University, his continuing love affair with a white girl whom he eventually marries, his brief but brilliant legal and diplomatic career, his sacrifice of position and comfort to return to the South as a civil rights leader, and his tragic but triumphant end.
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This novel details the life of David Champlin, a Negro born in poverty in New Orleans in the depression, through his escape to college in the North and finally to Oxford University, his continuing love affair with a white girl whom he eventually marries, his brief but brilliant legal and diplomatic career, his sacrifice of position and comfort to return to the South as a civil rights leader, and his tragic but triumphant end.
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Only light wear to book; A tight solid book. Minimal information on copyright page identifies this as a book club edition; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 853 pages; This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in the violent world he has to confront. And the “five smooth stones” are those the biblical David carried against Goliath.
First of all, I am white and love to read books about african-americans. And this book is just that. It is also about civil rights. I already had read it, but found out it was out of print and I couldn't find my copy which was very old. So I sent for this copy. All I can say is that it is still my favorite book. I am definitely going to read it again, because it has been quite a while since I read it the first time.
