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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
By Purdum, Todd S.
- ISBN
- 9780805096729
- Publisher
- Holt
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Starred Review on March 1, 2014 | Prepub Alert
Purdum (senior writer, Politico; coauthor, A Time of Our Choosing: America's War in Iraq) hails both the 1964 Civil Rights Act (officially H.R. 7152) and the 1965 Voting Rights Act together as the 20th century's most important legislation. Here he shows how the former transformed the United States. The author skillfully retraces the act through a legislative minefield of conservative-proposed Jim Crow amendments, an unsuccessful filibuster led by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
