Levitas, Mitchel, and Harbutt, Charles (Photograph Editor), and Jones, Lee (Photograph Editor)
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston [A Ridge Press Book], 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 30 cm, 192, illus. DJ has edgewear, soiling, and some creasing. The contents are: Foreword, The American Dream, Streak of Violence, The Deep Roots of Poverty, Battle of Equality, The Unwanted War, Confrontation, The Political Response, and The Quality of American Life. Magnum photographers with work in this book include Eve Arnold, Cornell Capa, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Burt Glinn, Philip Jones Griffiths, Charles Harbutt, Danny Lyon, Constantine Manos, Don McCullin, Wayne Miller, Dennis Stock, and Burk Uzzle. Also included is work by Mary Ellen Mark and Hiroji Kubota. 192 pages; profusely illustrated with b&w gravure plates; 8.5 x 12 inches. Out of Print. A great collection of photographs describing the state of the nation in the 1960s. Includes mini-photo-essays by Lyon, McCullin, Griffiths, Manos, Erwitt and Harbutt. Mitchel R. Levitas was a journalist who won the prestigious George Polk Award in his 20s for a series on labor racketeering and held leading newsroom positions at The New York Times for decades. A native New Yorker, he joined the newspaper in 1965 as a writer and editor with The New York Times Magazine. He retired 37 years later, in 2002, as editorial director of book development, a post in which he inaugurated volumes of the best writing by Times reporters and anthologies of Times reportage on great historical events. He wrote the text for “America in Crisis” (1969), a book of Magnum photo agency photographs chronicling the tumultuous 1960s. More