9993X1 First Printing. St. Martin's Press, New York: 1965. 168 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Library discard. The story of Shaw's life and of his command. Meticulously researched and written, the book traces his growth through childhood at Brook Farm, his youth on Staten Island and his days at Harvard. The story gathers momentum with a stirring description of Shaw's march down Broadway as a private in New York's Seventh Regiment. The reader follows him as he meets and talks to Abraham Lincoln, fights in the Shenandoah Valley, and as his interest in a greater wartime role for the Negro quickens. $221.00USD
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