Mississippi Notebook
- New York: David White Company, 1964
New York: David White Company, 1964. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's original black cloth titled in white to spine. Dustjacket. 117pp. + 48pp. black and white photographs. Clean and strong, bumping to spine ends and some cosmetic scuffing and discoloration to extremities, in a clean, sharp example of the white dustjacket with some toning, light marginal wear and chipping to the extremities. A very good clean copy indeed. Internally clean.
The ever acerbic von Hoffman's account of his summer spent in the civil rights powderkeg of Mississippi in 1964 , fresh from his work as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky and the Woodlawn Organization, and just before planting his feet and embracing his fate as one of America's more aggressively acerbic and scornful journalists. Suggestions of that are crystallizing here, most notably with one of von Hoffman's photographs of a group of young white men in Neshoba County, referred to witheringly as "The Neshoba County Corps De Ballet", watching in evident lascivious excitement and hilarity as the FBI drags the river below them for murdered civil rights workers.
The ever acerbic von Hoffman's account of his summer spent in the civil rights powderkeg of Mississippi in 1964 , fresh from his work as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky and the Woodlawn Organization, and just before planting his feet and embracing his fate as one of America's more aggressively acerbic and scornful journalists. Suggestions of that are crystallizing here, most notably with one of von Hoffman's photographs of a group of young white men in Neshoba County, referred to witheringly as "The Neshoba County Corps De Ballet", watching in evident lascivious excitement and hilarity as the FBI drags the river below them for murdered civil rights workers.