Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Mentor)
Contributed by Benjamin Shaykin
on Jan 17th, 2023. Artwork published in
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Why We Can’t Wait was originally published in 1964 by Harper & Row (see the post on Fonts In Use). This mass-market paperback edition was published following King’s assassination in 1968.
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The quote on the back is set in News Gothic, alongside the author’s name in Alternate Gothic and the title in Permanent Massiv, as seen on the front cover.
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The interior is set in Times New Roman, with all-caps Century Expanded for chapter titles.
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