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Calculating Visions

Name: Calculating Visions
Brand: Rutgers University Press
SKU: 9780813517445
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Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights

Автор: Mark Stern

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Rutgers University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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In June 1963, in the midst of national turmoil brought about by civil rights demonstrations, John Ke...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Mark Stern

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2003

страници

328

EAN

9780813517445

ISBN

9780813517445

Enbook ID

07412035

Издател

Rutgers University Press

Теглоt

566

Размери

155 x 228 x 20

Пълно описание

In June 1963, in the midst of national turmoil brought about by civil rights demonstrations, John Kennedy sent his administration's first major civil rights bill to the Congress. Still unsure about this move, he asked his brother Robert, "Do you think we did the right thing?" Within days of assuming the presidency, Lyndon Johnson publicly committed himself to civil rights as a "memorial" to his predecessor. Privately he told Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the leader of the South in Congress, "Dick, you've got to get out of my way. I'm going to run you over." President Johnson would not compromise or equivocate on civil rights. John Kennedy of Massachusetts yielded to the pressure of events and became an ally of the movement, despite his fear that supporting civil rights could cost him votes in Congress and the nation. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, whom liberals loathed because he often gutted their prize legislation, became the committed champion of civil rights. Together their administrations became synonymous with the Second Reconstruction, though neither president had a prior record of strong civil rights commitment. Mark Stern explains how each man pursued power and votes, and ultimately redirected his own course of action and altered the nation's future.