Worthy; timely; and intelligent.--The New Yorker It was a turbulent time in America--a time of sit-ins; freedom rides; a March on Washington; and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door--when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to outlaw racial discrimination. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because; as one influential senator put it; it was "an idea whose time has come." In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail; Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible; from the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson; from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen. Drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews; Purdum brings to life this signal achievement in American history and stands as a lesson for our own troubled times about what is possible when patience; bipartisanship; and decency rule the day.
Carus Paul 2010-08-16Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.69 x .13 x 7.44l; .28 #File Name: 117729622562 pagesKarma a Story of Buddhist Ethics
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