The Complete Rags of Time: A Season in Prison: (Parts 1 and 2) (Afrikaans Edition) - Hardcover

Cook, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1477137408 ISBN 13: 9781477137406

Publisher: Xlibris, 2012

Synopsis

The Complete Rags of Time: A Season in Prison (Parts 1 and 2) publishes for the first time all the prison narrative I wrote in the six-month period (January 1971-June 1971) after my release from Federal Prison in November 1970. Rags of Time: A Season in Prison (Beacon, 1972) was only part 1 of the narrative. It was published because it was complete in itself, and Beacon wanted it out as quickly as possible. Beacon had just published, in book form for the first time, The Pentagon Papers, and desired, I think, a more human face to put on their antiwar efforts. I think too they hoped I would promote both books on tour. I disappointed them in that effort. I was not ready for a book tour and would not participate in such a venture. The manuscript has gathered dust over the decades, for at the time, I held out hope that Beacon would publish it. But in the pre-Watergate days, when Rags was published, mainstream reviewers would not pick it up. It did receive some positive reviews in alternative press venues, had a wide library circulation, here and in Canada, and was taught in college and university courses on both coasts. Before I too turn to dust, I feel it necessary, not only to complete the record, but to complete the story of my friends, fellow prisoners of war, who took their stand against the war to prison. Now, for all the victims of our war without end, NSA surveillance, the fascist Homeland Security apparatus, and the unconscionable strip searches of the rights and bodies of old and young, I feel the need to throw yet another book to the barricade.

About this title

About the Author

Jack Cook was born in Brooklyn, NY, in l940, and was educated at King's College (PA) and Cornell University. He served as Associate Editor of The Catholic Worker from l966-l973; in l968 he was indicted and convicted for refusal of Induction and sentenced to three years in Federal Prison. Two years into his term he was released by order of the Supreme Court. He is the author of Rags of Time: A Season in Prison (Beacon, 1972) and The Face Of Falsehood (Anthoensen, 1986). He currently lives with his family in upstate New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: Afrikaans
• ISBN 10: 1477137408
• ISBN 13: 9781477137406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374