53 AMERICANA “The Opportunity Is Not Yet Lost… But The Clock Of History Is Nearing The Midnight Hour” 69KING, Jr., Martin Luther. Fumbling on the New Frontier. New York, 1962. Slim quarto, original self-wrappers. $1100 First separate printing of Dr. King’s provocative analysis of the Kennedy record on civil rights, King’s much-anticipated successor to the opening 1961 article in his annual Nation series, with this bold 1962 work invoking Lincoln to declare, “impotence at a moment of kaleidoscopic world change is even worse than error.” Here King asserts “Impotence at a moment of kaleidoscopic world change is even worse than error” and states Kennedy’s “New Frontier is unfortunately not new enough; and the Frontier is set too far to the rear.” At news of Kennedy’s proposal for a plan “to put a man on the moon,” King bluntly notes: “we do not yet have a plan to put a Negro in the State legislature of Alabama.” After centuries of struggle for equal rights, “the opportunity is not yet lost... but the clock of history is nearing the midnight hour.” Fine condition. 70(JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines) CARO, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York, 1982-2012. Four volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets. $850 First editions of all four volumes of Caro’s critically praised, Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. Critics singled out not only Caro’s research, but also his narrative brilliance in this pioneering work, especially noting that “this fascinating, immensely long and highly readable book is the fullest account we have—and are ever likely to have—of the early years of Lyndon Baines Johnson… The details that Caro has dug up are astonishing, and he has pieced them together to tell a monumental political saga” (New York Times). Caro was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Path to Power and Means of Ascent (1982 and 1990, respectively) and the 2002 National Book Award and 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography (his second Pulitzer) for Master of the Senate. Line of discoloration to gutter of front endpapers in Volume I. About-fine condition. “A Monumental Political Saga”
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