will counts ernest dumas robert (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Counts, Will, photos (illustratore). 1st Edition. (xviii) 76 pp, b/w captioned photos, incl frontis, full-page & in text; oblong 4to, yellow endpapers, small black markout and owner imprint front endpaper, contents very good+; black cloth, light wear spine ends, very good+; b/w photo dust jacket, very good+. Horrific beating of veteran Alex Wilson 1957 ant its impact on the national civil rights movement. Photographer & storyteller Will Counts revisits Central High in Little Rock, AK 40 years later to document changes w/new photos, interviews.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Taken a half-century ago, these photographs depict the desegregationcrisis in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was somoved at the beating of veteran Alex Wilson that he ordered 1,200 paratroopers fromthe 101st Airborne to Little Rock, and federalized the Arkansas National Guard toquell the 'disgraceful occurrences.' A Life Is More Than a Moment carriesus back to those painful and turbulent times, but it does not leave us there. Inaddition to these immortal photos, photographer Will Counts also took new portraitsof many of the original subjects when he returned to Little Rock in 1997. Essays byRobert S. McCord, Ernest Dumas, and Will Campbell chart the path leading to thecrisis and define its impact on the civil rights movement. This book shows an uglyhatred, but in the end, it is also a book of hope and reconciliation. 50th Anniversary Edition of a bestselling book that tells the story behind the photographs that shocked our nation.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Will Counts on the front endpage.

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.