Write Me In!

New York: Bantam Books, 1968. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Large white duodecimo or small octavo, pocket book, 158 pages, b&w illustrations; 18 cm. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, moderate soiling to rear cover, extremely mild wear to corners, light soiling mark to page 117, clipped front cover-top corner, very gentle rubbing to edges, light soiling to fore-edges, else Very Good(-). Paperback.

Paperback original. Dick Gregory attacks the political and social climate in the United States in this comic-serious effort to be effort to be a write-in candidate for President. Contents: I. Why I want to be president: Politicians and statesman -- Only one qualification -- The country and the college -- II. How I want to be president: Political prostitution -- Peace and freedom -- III. This nation is insane: Nonviolence is a fraud -- The double standard -- Racism-black and white -- The tiger and the cricket -- The corrupt American history book -- Try to understand -- Political psychosis -- Riots help the cause -- Who stinks? -- Mental slavery -- Youth power -- IV. Moral fallout: America's genocide -- Tax loopholes -- Whom can you antitrust? -- Will the real crook please stand up? -- The original American -- V. The Gregory report on civil disorders: The changing attitude -- Mental and physical abuse -- The new black man -- The cop and the hunter -- Political agitators and ghetto revolutionaries -- Calculated revolution -- Cancel the flight -- VI. The Gregory accords: An executive order -- Law and order-at home and abroad -- Pulling out -- The United Nations -- Foreign aid -- VII. Life in these United States -- VIII. Crisis in town and country: Creating a work force -- Toward a better environment -- Starvation at home -- IX. The Gregorian court calendar: Concern for the cop -- A fireside chat -- Kids in trouble -- X. Pencil power. African American wit and humor.