Vernon Can Read! A Memoir (inscribed first printing)

Jordan, Vernon E., Jr.; Gordon-Reed, Annette; Annette Gordon-Reed

ISBN 10: 189162069X / ISBN 13: 9781891620690

Published by PublicAffairs, 2001

About this Item

First edition, first printing with full number line. Inscribed by Jordan on title page. A very good copy with an owner inscription about Jordan on endpaper in a fine price clipped DJ, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #166.

Seller Inventory # 020165

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir (inscribed first printing)
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189162069X
• ISBN 13: 9781891620690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The civil rights leader, attorney, and former head of the National Urban League recounts his boyhood in segregated Atlanta, his career, and the social changes he helped to bring about.

About the Author

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., one of the major civil rights figures in American history, is now a senior managing director of the investment firm Lazard Frères & Co. Annette Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is a professor at New York Law School. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. She lives in New York City.