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The History of Literature

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The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sam greenley was one of the first black agents in the us. Information agency, where he served from 19 57 to 19 65. When he left the agency, he didn't organize a race war, but he wrote a novel that critics fretted might start one,. The spook who sat by the door is called, with a triple entondre in the title, spook, the racial slur, spooks.

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