Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.

GLAZER, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

$975.00

Item Number: 118618

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.

First edition of this classic work, “perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed and dated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Irving and Bea- With Great Respect Daniel Aug 1963.” The recipients, Irving Kristol and his wife Gertrude Himmelfarb, who were close friends of Moynihan. Kristol was a journalist who was dubbed the “godfather of neoconservatism.” Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian who was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association.

Beyond the Melting Pot was one of the most influential books published during the 1960s. "It is perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made" (Richard H. Rovere, The New Yorker).