| Description |
xiv, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1980. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. Calling Mrs. Martin Luther King -- 2. On the campaign of 1960 -- 3. Search for the brightest and the best -- 4. Martin Luther King, the bus boycott, and civil disobedience -- 5. Kennedy action and inaction : "One stroke of the pen" -- 6. Marching to Montgomery -- 7. MLK, RFK, LBJ, and the FBI : matters of life and death -- 8. The Peace Corps : "Hijos de Kennedy" -- 9. A war on poverty and the idea of national service -- 10. The Great Society and Lyndon Johnson's other war -- 11. From the Bay of Pigs to Vietnam -- 12. The agony of Robert Kennedy -- 13. Chicago 1968 and the end of an era -- Epilogue : mystic chords of memory -- appendix. Precursor and conscience : the Commission on Civil Rights. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
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| ISBN |
0822938324 |
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0822958082 pb |
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