THE DAYS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Signed presentation from well-known and controversial columnist Jack Anderson and his wife on the half-title page: "August 25, 1971. To Livvie and Jack- Dear, dear friends. Jim." Jack Anderson [1922-2005] was an controversial American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret U.S. policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Anderson feuded with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s, when he exposed the scope of the Mafia, a threat that Hoover had long downplayed. In 1972 Anderson was the target of an assassination plot conceived by senior White House staff. Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath that they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from senior White House aide Charles Colson. White House "plumbers" G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt met with a CIA operative to discuss the possibilities, including drugging Anderson with LSD, poisoning his aspirin bottle, or staging a fatal mugging. The plot was aborted when the plotters were arrested for the Watergate break-in. Anderson's wife was Olivia [nee Farley], aka "Livvie." Bishop was also a well-known syndicated columnist. A terrific association copy!. 8vo., black cloth in dust jacket; 516 pages. Very Good (minor bumping upper corners of covers, else clean & bright; contents clean & tight); very minor wear (related bumps) d/j.