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Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
by Wilkins, Roger
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807009563
- ISBN 13
- 9780807009567
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing in unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 163 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author returns to America's beginnings and the lives of the founding fathers to explore how, more than 200 years after the establishment of this great nation, race and slavery still impede our progress..
Synopsis
Roger Wilkins, currently the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University, was cited in the 1972 Pulitzer Prize award to The Washington Post for his coverage of Watergate. He serves on the school board of the District of Columbia and lives in Washington, D.C.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028467
- Title
- Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
- Author
- Wilkins, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0807009563
- ISBN 13
- 9780807009567
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS AND SLAVERY, BLACK THOMAS JEFFERSON, ROGER WILKINS, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Black History;
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