White and Black Test of a Nation Author:Samuel Lubell Since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation the United States has been living on borrowed time, time bought through legalistic, political and social machinations, in an attempt to postpone the inevitable racial showdown that we now must face. In White and Black: Test of a Nation, Samuel Lubell, one of the country's soundest political anal... more »ysts, poses the agonizing questions at the heart of the conflict. Has time, as we have rigged its workings, brought into being the conditions that will overcome the racial crisis or has time aggravated the problem and, in fact, robbed us of our ability ever to solve this conflict? This is the purpose of his book - to examine how we have used the past hundred years and what we must expect lies ahead.« less