[PDF.14rt] An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

[PDF.te30] An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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 |  2015-03-31 |  2015-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.31 x.77 x5.51l,.0 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good history, laughable conclusion.|By Kevin|This is a good history of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Why the three star review, then? Quality-wise, the prose ebbs and flows, with some pages being very interesting, and others being a drag. That's one star for me. The other comes from the laughable conclusion. I had thoroughly enjoyed this book and intended on givi|From Booklist|As we approach the golden anniversary of this landmark equal-rights and public-accommodations bill, veteran journalist Purdum painstakingly details how its passage came about. In short, not easily. C

"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 nar...

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