first edition Hardcover
1970 · New York
by Hofstadter, Richard and Michael Wallace (Editors)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A superb documentary reader that is, in effect, a history of violence in America through four centuries. Here, as experienced by men and women who lived through them, are not only the familiar, chilling eruptions - Harper's Ferry; the Civil War draft riot in New York; Homestead; Centralia; the Detroit ghetto; the assassinations of Lincoln, Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy - but also less commonly remembered episodes, such as the New York slave riots of 1712, the doctors' riot of 1788, vigilante terror in Montana, the anti-Chinese riot in Los Angeles in 1871, and the White League coup d'état of 1874 in New Orleans. Octavo: xiv, 478, xiii p. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. The ink signature of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks appears on the front pastedown. A near fine copy in a slightly shelfworn dust jacket. (Inventory #: 76665)