Made by history – a book collector’s story

Martin Luther King’s call to be a “transformed nonconformist” (in the book From Strength to Love written in 1963) is history, but it is a call that remains valid in our modern world. King felt a shift had occurred from individualism to collectivism arguing: “We are not makers of history; we are made by history.” Rather than adopting a “view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will...