Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights / Steven Levingston.
Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights / Steven Levingston.
Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights / Steven Levingston.
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Publisher
New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
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G 2017/5928
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 511 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
"To teach a president" -- Two men, two worlds -- A call to Coretta -- "Tomorrow may be too late" -- "Pawns in a white man's political game" -- "It often helps me to be pushed" -- Epilogue.
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Publisher
New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.
"The story of civil rights in the early 1960s is a tale of courageous sit-ins and marches, police brutality, violence, and murder. It is also a tale of two men: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., a pair of gifted, charismatic, and ambitious leaders from strikingly different worlds. When they first met in 1960, as Kennedy lobbied King to ba...
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Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights / Steven Levingston.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-489) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/5928
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74VKVgBZwDAM
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ISBN
9780316267397 (hardcover)
0316267392 (hardcover)
DDC
973.922
MMS ID
991024148799102626
