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Freedom's Pragmatist
Sylvia Ellis
其他書名
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
出版University Press of Florida, 2013
ISBN08130461739780813046174
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GHSCAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson ""Lincoln's successor."" But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist, Sylvia Ellis tracks Johnson's personal and political civil rights journey, from his childhood and early adulthood in Texas to his lengthy career in Congress and the Senate to his time as vice president and president. Once in the White House, and pressured constantly by grassroots civi.