1980 signed OF KENNEDYS & KINGS civil rights MLK JFK LBJ politics 1960s
This listing is for the hardcover with dust jacket book shown. Measures approx 6.25" x 9.25" x 2" thick with 503 pages.
A book of recollections and reflections on the 1960s - regarding John and Robert Kennedy, Coretta and Martin Luther King, and on the national and international politics of that intense period of time. Topics include:
- Campaign of 1960
- MLK, the Bus Boycott, and Civil Disobedence
- Marching to Montgomery
- The Peace Corps
- War on Poverty and the Idea of National Service
- The Great Society and Lyndon Johnson's Other War
- From the Bay of Pigs to Vietnam
- Chicago 1968 and the End of an Era
- and much, much more...
Of Kennedys and Kings - Making Sense of the Sixties - by Harris Wofford. Farrar-Straus-Giroux - New York.
Inscribed: For Mary Del Boady? - Who is drawn to new frontiers. Best regards, Harris Wofford. February 1988 - after the Partnership Meeting.
Inscribed: For Jim Foley - Who carries on the Peace Corps in a new way in a new decade. Warm regards and affection, Harris Wofford. December 1990.
Excellent original early family and/or town genealogy, history, antique, collectible heirloom and/or ephemera.
CONDITION: see description and supersized photos; pages are clean, clear, and legible; several pages are marked with yellow highlighter (assume for reference or study); binding, spine, and covers are stable and firm; minor smudges on the page edges with other light vintage wear.
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