The New York Times BOOK REVIEW section only dated Sept. 29, 1974

• Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made" book review

The front page has a heading: "Roll, Jordon, Roll..." with illustration showing plantation life. (see images) This piece by David Brion Davis continues on page 2. See below for further details. 
Complete book review section only with 48 pages, nice condition.

Background: This September 29, 1974 issue of The New York Times Book Review stands out as a highly significant piece of twentieth-century literary ephemera, featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning Yale historian David Brion Davis's front-page review of Eugene D. Genovese’s groundbreaking study Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, complete with striking illustrations depicting plantation life. Content-wise, it records the exact historical moment an intellectual titan evaluated Genovese’s Bancroft Prize–winning work—a masterwork that fundamentally transformed the historiography of American slavery by using Gramscian cultural hegemony to demonstrate how enslaved Black Americans creatively forged their own resilient culture, faith, and agency within the constraints of paternalism. In terms of rarity, while The New York Times enjoyed a massive Sunday circulation in 1974, standalone newsprint review sections are inherently fragile and rarely survive in good condition due to high-acid wood pulp degradation; consequently, intact copies featuring such historically pivotal, front-page reviews are quite uncommon today, typically commanding between $20 and $45 among collectors, academic historians, and ephemera dealers.