New York Times Who Speaks Ad
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PICTURE OF FRONT PAGE AND SPINE OF NOVEL WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS:
WHO SPEAKS FOR THE NEGRO?
ROBERT
PENN
WARREN
A RANDOM HOUSE BOOK
“The best book yet about the Negro revolution in modern America:
its causes and possible consequences, its problems and its paradoxes, and the issues that unite, and that divide, its leaders and spokesmen. Logic and Southernness account for a part of the value and the power, of his book, but to them are joined Mr. Warren’s deep moral commitment as an artist and citizen and his technical skills and integrity as a reporter.”
MAURICE DOLBIER, N.Y. Herald Tribune
“By any measure, it is one of the year’s outstanding books …. A long book and a fascinating one. You must read it slowly and carefully to get the full values it offers, its brilliant play in contrasting lights, its developments, its searches for that elusive contemporary target—a national consensus.”
CHARLES POORE,
The New York Times
“An absorbing book, and a valuable document of contemporary history…It contains interviews—sympathetically conducted and carefully checked by their subjects—in which Mr. Warren discusses the Negro revolution with James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, James Farmer of CORE, James Forman of SNCC, Adam Clayton Powell, Bayard Rustin of the War “Registers” League, Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, Malcolm X, Whitney Young of the Urban League, and a large number of less prominent but equally energetic and vocal Negroes in many different parts of the United States. Each interview is not merely a transcribed dialogue. It also gives Mr. Warren’s impression of that particular Negro’s personality, his emotional state, his intellectual competence and integrity, and his potentialities as a social and political leader.”
-GILBERT HIGHET,
Book-of-the-Month Club News
“The most searching exploration of the thought and emotion, the tensions and conflicts of the greatest American social upheaval of this century.”
C. VANN WOODWARD, New Republic
Page 912 has been “X” through and is a duplicate of page 916.
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