RaveAkron Beacon JournalProvides copious footnotes and scrupulous research; Parr also makes many speculations about what people know or said. Drawing on voluminous prison records, Parr’s descriptions of the midcentury penal system are chilling.
Patrick Parr
PositiveThe Akron Beacon JournalThrough scrupulous research and interviews with King’s peers...Patrick Parr puts the reader in the classroom with King ... Parr investigates King’s confirmed habit of lifting entire passages from other works and quoting them without attribution, sometimes changing only a word or two. His professors sometimes corrected him, but there was no discipline ... Worrying about grades and girls, this ML is as familiar as a student of today.