“In My Father and Atticus Finch, Joseph Madison Beck has summoned the ghosts of 1930s Alabama to tell a true courtroom tale of immense honor and complexity. An ode to an enlightened man among the ignorant, and an urgent diagnosis of how racial loathing ruins lives and makes mute the laws meant to protect them, the story of Beck’s father is not only an uncanny precedent to To Kill a Mockingbird but a stellar achievement in its own right.” — William Giraldi, author of Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark
“[A] a powerful telling of injustice in a less tolerant time.” — Seth Kantner, Minneapolis Star Tribune
“An insightful window into the everyday life of small-town Alabama in the 1930s… A sad but gripping account.” — Ryan Claringbole, Library Journal
“A poignant and warmly engaging memoir.” — Kirkus
“As a lawyer himself, author Beck lays out the circumstances of the case with gripping, almost cinematic detail… [F]ascinating.” — Bridget Thoreson, Booklist