Publisher's Synopsis
Warren Folks ran for office from the mid-1960s through the mid-'90s. He ran for council member, state representative, senator and Florida governor. He headquartered his constant conspiracy theory wars from his Downtown Jacksonville barbershop, from which Life Magazine photographed him in 1965. He associated with the likes of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace, and J.B. Stoner, the Klan's attorney, who defended the assassin of Martin Luther King. Folks's conspiratorial causes never let up and frequently made national news.
The Culture Wars of Warren Folks also tells important black history, both local and national, which might seem ironic, but is never incidental. Telling Folks's story tells also of Ax Handle Saturday; of Florida civil rights activists like Rutledge Pearson, Bob Ingram and Robert Hayling; of Voting Rights Marches in Alabama; of Martin Luther King and the St. Augustine Movement. Any account of his life, however, that failed to ask what made Warren Folks the man he was would be a waste. The Culture Wars of Warren Folks investigates Folks's childhood and World War II experiences, and demands the question of how the next Warren Folks might choose better versions of himself.
