WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ROBERT KENNEDY TO SENATOR CLAIBORNE PELL AND ANNOTATED BY PELL

KENNEDY, Robert F. To Seek a Newer World. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $5800.

First edition, published less than seven months before RFK's assassination, presentation association copy, inscribed and signed: “For Claiborne With the high regards of his friend. Bob Kennedy.”

"The sixties were a turbulent decade, and Robert Kennedy responded to that turbulence with unusual directness and sensitivity. He had evolved from the rigid prosecutor of a decade earlier into a popular leader who combined political realism with social idealism and passion with humor" (Foner & Garraty, 614), all qualities informing this collection of essays, which grew out of Kennedy's travels and experiences as Attorney General and as a Senator, and which address such topics as the youth movements, race relations in America, nuclear arms and Vietnam. Claiborne Pell was a democratic senator from Rhode Island from 1961 through 1997. With Pell’s armorial bookplate, and annotated by him. Book review taped to rear free endpaper.

Two small dents to front board of book in extremely good condition. Dust jacket bright and fine. A desirable copy with a superlative association.