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A Top Washington Journalist Recounts The Dramatic Political Battle To Pass The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, The Law That Created Modern America, On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Its Passageit 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 Bar Racial Discrimination In Employment, Education, And Public Accommodations. 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, Purdum Shows How These All-too-human Figures Managed, In Just Over A Year, To Create A Bill That Prompted The Longest Filibuster In The History Of The U.s. Senate Yet Was Ultimately Adopted With Overwhelming Bipartisan Support. He Evokes

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Author

Purdum, Todd S., author

Publisher

New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805096729

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.01 / 5 (150 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13