UID:
almafu_9959231495702883
Format:
1 online resource (356 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8135-6793-9
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1-281-15131-9
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9786611151317
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0-8135-4008-9
Content:
President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable ratings of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of the best political minds of the day. This articulate and charismatic
Note:
Includes index.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Inside the Cocoon; Chapter 2: Captain Carlo; Chapter 3: Romance in Italy; Chapter 4: Law and Politics; Chapter 5: "Where the Huckleberries Grow"; Chapter 6: The Boston Finance Commission; Chapter 7: One Vote in Worcester; Chapter 8: Attorney General; Chapter 9: The Strange Case of the Boston Strangler; Chapter 10: Running for the Senate; Chapter 11: Back to Washington; Chapter 12: Vietnam; Chapter 13: Member of the Club; Chapter 14: The President Nixon I Knew; Chapter 15: "The Freest Man in the Senate"; Chapter 16: A Private Matter
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Chapter 17: Stormy WeatherChapter 18: Love and Redemption; Chapter 19: Private Citizen; Chapter 20: Looking Beyond; Index; Gallery of Images
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8135-3905-6
Language:
English
