signed first edition
1970 · Indianapolis and New York
by Stone, Chuck
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1970. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing, as association copy, of this political thriller that follows a Black congressman as he becomes increasingly wrapped up in a secessionist Black nationalist group – by noted journalist and Tuskegee airman Chuck Stone. Chuck Stone made his name as a columnist and editor of Black newspapers, for which he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer. KING STRUT was Stone's only novel, and weaves together his experiences with politics, racism, and the Black Power movement into an intense story of the rise and cataclysmic fall (truncated)