FAST, HOWARD — Peepskill USA. A personal experience

Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1954, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 110 pages, frontispiece. Old name on front endpaper. Fast was the MOC at a civil rights benefit concert featuring Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and others. Local newspapers stoked anticommunist anger, and the event was besieged by a mob armed with rocks, clubs, fence posts, and knives. The book is a blow-by-blow account of the bloody riots, which led to the beating of the first black combat pilot in the US Air Force, Eugene Bullard. This edition was published in Moscow 1954. Good.