Autumn 2020 Catalogue

49 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 Inscribed And Signed By RFK 49. KENNEDY, Robert F. To Seek a Newer World. Garden City, New York, 1967. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $2800. Click for more info First edition, published less than seven months before RFK’s assassination, inscribed and signed: “For Stephen Adamson, With Best Wishes, Robert F. Kennedy.” “The ’60s were a turbulent decade, and Robert Kennedy responded to that turbulence with unusual directness and sensitivity. He had evolved from the rigid prosecutor of a decade earlier into a popular leader who combined political realism with social idealism and passion with humor” (Foner & Garraty, 614), all qualities informing this collection of essays, which grew out of Kennedy’s travels and experiences as Attorney General and as a Senator, and which address such topics as the youth movements, race relations in America, nuclear arms and Vietnam. Book near-fine, dust jacket with some creasing and short closed tears near spine ends, bright and clean. An attractive inscribed copy.