Robert Froman, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Kubinyi, Laszlo (illustrator). Inscribed by author on half title page. Book has no tears or marks noted. The dust jacket has fading along the spine, small tears and chips at the edges and corners and white spots on the front. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. A book which focuses on "racism's American traditions. . showing how the Amerindians learned the practice of scalping from Anglo-Saxons, how the borrowing of the word 'negro' from the Spanish and Portuguese helped to ease Englishmen's consciences over the adoption of the institution of slavery, and how even Lincoln espoused the prevailing attitudes of white superiority. McWhorter's history of the Nez Perce and C. Vann Woodward's studies of the post-reconstruction South are used to dispel commonly repeated myths about the Indian wars and Reconstruction. . Revel's Neither Marx Nor Jesus is cited to provide support for the author's optimistic contention that black activism may force the U.S. into a position of world leadership in combating racism." (Kirkus) I think we would question that optimism now. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1975. An uncommon title by this rather prolific author, and especially so signed. Bibliography, index. 156 pp. Very good in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (stray mark on bottom edge, slight spine slant, tear to dj at top of spine, other minor wear).