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Original Title:	Brother to a Dragonfly
ISBN:	0826400329 (ISBN13: 9780826400321)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Biography and Autobiography (1978), Lillian Smith Book Award (1978)

Brother to a Dragonfly

Will D. Campbell

Paperback | Pages: 268 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 460 Users | 64 Reviews

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Title	:	Brother to a Dragonfly
Author	:	Will D. Campbell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 268 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1980 by Continuum (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. American. Southern. History

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"We're all bastards, but God loves us anyway." This was Will Campbell's response to an avowed atheist who asked him to define Christianity in 10 words.

This is a memoir of two brothers who grew up poor in rural Mississippi in the 30's. They idolized each other, but took different paths. Our author became a Baptist minister, highly educated, and very active in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. His older brother Joe became a pharmacist who abused and became dependent on the pills he was handing out. The brothers helped and defended each other all their lives. It's an honest story of love and family devotion.

But what makes this book special is that it's also the story of the South that the author knows and loves, and the questioning of things he had always believed, including and especially his evolving views on what he believed and how best to minister to people while leaving the church behind. At one point, he became friends with a member of the Ku Klux Klan in an attempt to understand what they wanted to accomplish. In a particularly moving scene he comes to understand - "Suddenly I knew that we are a nation of Klansmen. I knew that as a nation we stood for peace, harmony and freedom, but that the means we employed to accomplish those ends were the complete opposite."

This book is guaranteed to make you think, about family and relationships, about religion, about race, about human nature itself.
And it is sure to offend almost everyone who reads it at one point or another because of it's honesty. That's why I like it so much.

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Ratings: 4.28 From 460 Users | 64 Reviews

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I gave this book five stars not only because it gives an engaging insight into the tumultuous civil rights era of America's history, but primarily for the deeper insights that came to Will Campbell as he lived amidst the reality of the darker side of humanity. He does not mince words or gloss over the raw and painful realities of life. From his realization of his own self righteousness and mistaken dependence on human systems to the ever present reality of his beloved brother's drug dependence,

The only reason I didn't give this book five stars was that it took me a little while to get into it, but once I did, wow. What a great read, with truths and struggles that are still relevant today (I write this as the country is simmering over the various white-cops-shooting-black-men tragedies in Ferguson, NYC, and FL).Two of my favorite quotes..."Somehow, in rural, Southern culture, food is always the first thought of neighbors when there is trouble. That is something they can do and not feel

A wonderful read, especially revealing the lives of a poor southern Mississippi family focusing on 2 brothers and their relationship with one another as they grew up and each traveled much different roads, one a preacher without a church and the other a pharmacist who became dependent on drugs. Captures a close-up view of what deep southern life is all about. Will D Campbell was a special man who defended the civil rights of blacks in the South while all the while trying to understand just why

I have waited months to review this book, mostly because I wanted to write with the experience of having taught Campbell's memoir two semester in a row. As the academic year comes to a close, I feel ready to review. I assigned the book for a first year seminar entitled "memoir, history, and culture." Some students struggled with the writing, but beyond that it was popular among most of them. I absolutely loved this book from the first page and the thoughtful genesis poem of Campbell's family.

Will D. Campbell was a whisky drinkin' Baptist preacher and Civil Rights activist who brushed shoulders with the likes of MLK Jr. & the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Needless to say, he was quite a colorful figure.Brother to a Dragonfly is many things: a biography of Joe Campbell, an autobiography of Will Campbell, a spiritual memoir, and a window into the South of the early to mid 20th century. Will wrote Dragonfly in honor of his brother whose dying wish was that someone some day would

I thoroughly enjoyed Campbell's autobiographical reflection on growing up in the South and his relationship with his brother and family.

Brother to a Dragonfly By Will D. CampbellContinuum, 1977ISBN 0816493219This is not a new book. I read it while it was still young when it was suggested to me by a faculty member while I was attending Hendrix College. But, I was too young to be reading this book. First, it was written by a Southern Baptist minister and seeing that I was already pretty suspicious of the Roman Catholic priests of my youth and adolescence, a Baptist minister had little chance capturing my attention. At the time, I