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Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America [Judgement]
by Kotz, Nick
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618088253
- ISBN 13
- 9780618088256
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About This Item
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 2005. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Second printing. An exceptional copy. 2005 Hard Cover. xix, 522 pp. The first comprehensive account of the relationship between President Johnson and Martin Luther King uses FBI wiretaps, Johnson's taped telephone conversations, and previously undisclosed communications between the two to paint a fascinating portrait of this important relationship.
Synopsis
Opposites in almost every way, mortally suspicious of each other at first, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Both men sensed a historic opportunity and began a delicate dance of accommodation that moved them, and the entire nation, toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources -- Johnson's taped telephone conversations, voluminous FBI wiretap logs, previously secret communications between the FBI and the president -- Nick Kotz gives us a dramatic narrative, rich in dialogue, that presents this momentous period with thrilling immediacy. Judgment Days offers needed perspective on a presidency too often linked solely to the tragedy of Vietnam. We watch Johnson applying the arm-twisting tactics that made him a legend in the Senate, and we follow King as he keeps the pressure on in the South through protest and passive resistance. King's pragmatism and strategic leadership and Johnson's deeply held commitment to a just society shaped the character of their alliance. Kotz traces the inexorable convergence of their paths to an intense joint effort that made civil rights a legislative reality at last, despite FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's vicious whispering campaign to destroy King. Judgment Days also reveals how this spirit of teamwork disintegrated. The two leaders parted bitterly over King's opposition to the Vietnam War. In this first full account of the working relationship between Johnson and King, Kotz offers a detailed, surprising account that significantly enriches our understanding of both men and their time.
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- Title
- Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America [Judgement]
- Author
- Kotz, Nick
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618088253
- ISBN 13
- 9780618088256
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston/New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HISTORY AMERICANA POLITICS POLITICAL SCIENCE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LYNDON B JOHNSON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ACTIVISTS CIVIL RIGHTS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIOLOGY LAWS LEGAL REFORM
- X weight
- 31 oz
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