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Washington Post, July, 23, 2008
“In the smoothly written "The Agitator's Daughter," Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University, adds her firsthand experiences as a participant and witness to civil rights history to enliven the text with a close and often heartbreaking point of view.”  


Flavour Magazine, Summer 2008
“Cashin’s clear-eyed assessment of what it’s like to live in a family of civil rights activists that goes back four generations: her father’s fierce love for her and her own love but exasperation with him, the toll that fighting for a cause can take on people and their families, and, most importantly, the powerful pull a family’s oral history – its “lore,” as Cashin puts it – can have on the destinies of its members.”


Washingtonian, August issue
“deeply personal.”


Denise Nichols, Washington Post, July 23, 2008
“Books of family lore -- part oral history, part anecdote with loads of juicy tidbits from diaries and journals, engaging old photographs, newspaper quotes and entries from the public record -- serve to put meat on the bones of history. In the smoothly written "The Agitator's Daughter," Sheryll Cashin…adds her firsthand experiences as a participant and witness to civil rights history to enliven the text with a close and often heartbreaking point of view.”


Margo Hammond, Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 10, 2008
“A clear-eyed assessment of living in a family of civil rights leaders that stretched back four generations. [Cashin] recounts her father’s fierce love for her and her own love but exasperation with him, the toll that crusading can take, and, most importantly, the powerful pull an oral history…can have on the destinies of its members.”
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Product Description

A renowned law professor's intimate chronicle of her family's history as pioneers of social justice, and the price her father paid for their achievements.

During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much.

In following generations of Cashins through the eras of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights political struggles, Sheryll Cashin conveys how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with humor, honesty, and love.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs (July 7, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1586484222
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586484224
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #690,050 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Tale, August 14, 2008
By Jeffrey D. Bauman (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
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Full disclosure. Sheryll is a colleague of mine whose office is two doors away. I have known her since she started teaching and have nothing but the highest regard for her, both personally and professionally.

That said, Sheryll has written an extraordinary book. At one level, it is the story of four generations of privileged black professionals who have been deeply committed to to racial and social justice, particularly for blacks in the Deep South whose struggles for such justice she describes through her family's efforts in politics, education and professional life. She traces the history of the black struggle for equality from Reconstruction to the present day, using family stories as the focal point for political events. Her family knew the leaders in every generation and they appear both as historical figures and real people as the history unfolds.

If that were all that the book was about, it would be worth reading. But it is very much more. it is a story of her family with all its strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, laughter and tears. Sheryll is fortunate that her family, to a substantial extent, kept the papers, photographs and memorabilia from generation to generation and, in this generation, the memorabilia now include the oral histories that Sheryll was able to take from her relatives while they (or, in the case of her father, are) alive. Not all of us are lucky enough to have those resources available nor, if we are, the skill to make them come alive.

Sheryll's family is one that believed, and still believes, that with privilege goes the responsibility to improve the lives of those who do not share that privilege, no matter what the social and financial costs may be. And, as she makes clear, costs there are that members of the family must bear, each in their own fashion. Her father is a fascinating and complex man with whom Sheryll has had a deeply loving and complex relationship. She does not avoid confronting both the love and the anger she felt over the years. Indeed, it is the deeply personal nature of her writing about her family that is the most moving part of the book.

Those who love Faulkner, about whose South Sheryll is writing, or Wallace Stegner as he traces family history through Angle of Repose, will respond immediately and viscerally to this book. Everyone else will be drawn in by Sheryll's ability to integrate history, politics, justice, family and feeling. Read it!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Agitator's Daughter, July 29, 2008
By Peggy A. Towns (Decatur, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews
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The Agitator's Daughter is a great book. Sheryl's straightforwardness about her family allows the reader to actually experience the struggles and triumphs' of Four generations of Cashin's. The family research is outstanding. The book allows you to flow into the life of a privileged upper class Family, as the author examines her families saga as African American officeholders, doctors, lawyers, etc. The writers efforts to share her families dedication to bring about change in the south; their work ethics and the significant contributions made by this family illuminate the saying "to much is given, much is required." This memoir is an excellent book, I've referred it to several book clubs!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspirational Tale, August 1, 2008
Professor Cashin's book is a stunning achievement-moving, historically relevant and inspirational, the more so because she tells her family's story with honesty, warts and all.

The measure of this book, and any good book is the level of intellectual stimulation in engenders in the reader. The measure of an outstanding book is the level of intellectual stimulation it engenders in the reader and the emotional tingle generated by sensitive treatment of subject matter and the deployment of appropriate language. This combination induces self-searching in the reader. Having completed it yesterday, my mind remains in a state of excitation. My emotions continue to tingle. I am inspired once again to feel that any change, anything, remains possible, which is something marvellous to experience two years short of fifty, idealism long sandpapered away by life.

Professor Cashin's father, for whom she plainly bears a complex and profound love, and whom she plainly and justifiably holds in so high regard, must now know his daughter has, in her own poignant and sensitive way, made a telling contribution to the cause to which he dedicated his life. Her mother, whose influence over Professor Cashin was plainly as great as her father's must be looking down upon her daughter and smiling in quiet contentment.

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