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001 2013038545
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008 131113s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $z9780805096736 (electronic book)
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050 00 $aKF4744.5151964$b.P87 2014
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100 1 $aPurdum, Todd S.,$eauthor.
245 13 $aAn idea whose time has come :$btwo presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 /$cTodd S. Purdum.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c2014
300 $a398 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passageIt was a turbulent time in America--a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door--when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because, as one influential senator put it, it was "an idea whose time has come."In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed, in just over a year, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history. Often hailed as the most important law of the past century, the Civil Rights Act stands as a lesson for our own troubled times about what is possible when patience, bipartisanship, and decency rule the day. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 369-375)and index.
610 10 $aUnited States.$tCivil Rights Act of 1964.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1961-1963.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1963-1969.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.$2bisacsh
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