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Patrick Parr

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Patrick Parr's first book was The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age, a 2019 Washington State Book Award finalist. The book was the culmination of five years of research, which included more than a dozen interviews with friends who'd known King during his years at Crozer Theological Seminary (1948-1951).

For his second book, Parr used newspaper archives and completed interviews with over twenty Notre Dame graduates to write One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation. Parr also incorporated into the story never-before-published letters from festival authors Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man), Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five), Wright Morris (The Field of Vision) and Nor ...more

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	The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age by Patrick Parr (Goodreads Author), David Garrow (Foreword) 4.03 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malcolm Before X 4.25 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Skive Magazine - The 18-35 Demographic Issue - December 2011 by Matthew Glenn Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Krzysztof T. Dąbrowski, Valentina Cano (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Malcolm Before X: African American Intellectual History by Patrick Parr (Goodreads Author), James Fouhey (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nowadays, the word mysticism may bring to mind things such as meditation, New Age beliefs, finding one’s inner self, and so on. But these practices, often of Eastern origin, are concerned primarily with a state of mind. Christian mysticism, on the other hand, concerns itself with the state of living. The”
― Patrick Parr, The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age

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“In fifteen-year-old ML, these two parental dynamics—harmony and authority—were beginning to synthesize to the benefit of his oratory. 5”
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“Next came Dr. Vernon B. Richardson, who’d graduated from Crozer in 1938. Tasked with delivering the commencement address, Richardson chose a broad theme: “The Preacher’s Heritage.” He knew from experience how Crozer put its students’ religious beliefs through the ringer, and he encouraged the graduates to look at the New Testament with fresh eyes. “Let no one ever fail to be awed by the mystery of a body of literature so profound being produced so quickly over so wide an area by so many minds responding to one life so briefly lived.”
― Patrick Parr, The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age

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