Violence: America In The Sixties

New American Library/Signet Book, New York, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. red & blue titles spine; Signet Special Broadside No. 5; "For three years we have been devastating a small country on the other side of the world in a war which bears no rational relationship to our national security or our national interest."; "Certainly two hundred million Americans did not strike down John Kennedy or Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy. But two hundred million Americans are plainly responsible for the character of' a society that works on deranged men and incites them to depraved acts."; 'The hysteria expressed by some at the thought that guns should be licensed only strengthens the psychiatric suspicion that men doubtful of their own virility cling to the gun as a symbolic phallus."; "We can no longer regard hatred and violence as accidents and aberrations ... The terrible things we do to our own people, the terrible things we do to other people-we cannot take the easy course and blame these things on anyone but ourselves."; previous owner's name on front endpaper; 96 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; American Politics; American Studies; United States; 1960s; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: POL00012. .