Write me in! / by Dick Gregory ; edited by James R. McGraw.

Dick Gregory attacks the political and social climate in the United States in this comic-serious effort to be a write-in candidate for President.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Main Author: Gregory, Dick
Other Authors: McGraw, James R. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, [1968]
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Humor, caricatures, etc.
African American wit and humor.
Ownership and Custodial History:
Copy 1: Bright orange sticker on front cover reads: "I'm on the ballot in New Jersey. Dick Gregory for President with David Frost for Vice President. Peace. Freedom. Alternative. 157-4"
Local Note:
MSU: Copy 2: Gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 2: The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
Physical Description:158 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Format: Book
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.