Matthew Walther

One dead in Ohio

Photographs of my Father examines the still unsolved murder of Spike’s activist father, Revd Spike

issue 01 October 2016

  • Photographs of My Father

    Paul Spike

    Cinco Puntos Press,, pp. 256

For the first time in living memory, a presidential candidate for a major party has received the enthusiastic endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan; one prominent former member of that fraternity — a Grand Wizard, I think: or was it a Grand Dragon? — is running for the US Senate.

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