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The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak s shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having the weight and authority of a sociological investigation. This Southern Classics edition makes Spivak s narrative available to modern readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison system.
Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences that trapped many southern...

The material in this small volume just barely scratches the surface of a problem which is becoming increasingly grave: the activities of Nazi agents in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. During the years John Spivak observed some of them, watching the original, crudely organized and directed propaganda machine develop, grow and leave an influence for wider than most people seem to realize. What at first appeared to be merely a distasteful attempt by Nazi Government officials at direct interference in the affairs of the American people and their Government, has now assumed the...

Shrine of the Silver Dollar By John L. Spivak 1940]. ONCE more John L. Spivak lives up to his reputation as one of America's ablest reporters, this time in revealing a man, Father Charles Coughlin, whom many believe to be unworthy of the cloth he wears. Spivak never depends on hearsay. He presents documents which tell their own story, and were it not for the documents included in this book the story itself would be unbelievable. As it stands, the volume is probably the most severe condemnation made of a public figure in our time. Father Coughlin addresses a vast audience over the air,...

Prepared for publication by Joe Henry Mitchell: The Book and the Author The famous reporter-detective, John L. Spivak, author of Secret Armies and America Faces the Barricades, has scored another sensational exposure in Honorable Spy. As in Secret Armies, which focused local and official attention on Nazi spy activities, Spivak gives names, dates and places. Evidence of his accuracy is already plain in the frantic shiftings of registration of Japanese "fishing boats," operating off the West Coast, the shifts and registrations occurring just after the author published some of these findings in...