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  • Honest John Williams

    U.S. Senator from Delaware

    de Carol E. Hoffecker ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
    John J. Williams was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1946, defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James M. Tunnell. Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware examines the political career of Williams, a political novice who established himself as an important advocate for fiscal probity and integrity in government during four successive terms in the U.S. Senate between 1947 and 1970. ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

    How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

    de Charles E Cobb Jr. ...
    Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal."Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Unexampled Courage

    The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America

    de Richard Gergel ...
    How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America's civil rights history.The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard .On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, after he challenged the bus driver's ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Black Cabinet

    The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

    de Jill Watts ...
    An in-depth history exploring the evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and '40s as FDR's Black Cabinet.In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by ... Leer más

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  • Presidential Misconduct

    From George Washington to Today

    Edición de James M. Banner ...
    Named a best book of the year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs"A whole book devoted exclusively to the misconduct of American presidents and their responses to charges of misconduct is without precedent." —from the introduction to the 1974 edition by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize–winning Yale historianThe historic 1974 report for the House Committee on the Judiciary, updated for today by ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    de Juan Williams ...
    Series series Eyes on the Prize
    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • An Idea Whose Time Has Come

    Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

    de Todd S. Purdum ...
    The story of the behind-the-scenes political battle to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act: "Excellent . . . a highly readable play-by-play." — The AtlanticIt 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Thurgood Marshall

    American Revolutionary

    de Juan Williams ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize“Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, TimeThurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    de David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Leer más

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  • The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals, and Dirty Politics

    de Kim Long ...
    Watergate. Billygate. Iran-Contra. Teapot Dome. Monica Lewinsky.American history is marked by era-defining misdeeds, indiscretions, and the kind of tabloid-ready scandals that politicians seem to do better than anyone else. Now, for the first time, one volume brings together 300 years of political wrongdoing in an illustrated history of politicians gone wild—proving that today’s scoundrels aren’t ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Showdown

    Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

    de Wil Haygood ...
    Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

    A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches

    de Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable ...
    On the evening of June 12, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun -- bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist -- was recovered moments ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD