Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes

By Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell

Book Overview

Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice brings the reader into the room as Kennedy argues with Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and the white business leaders of Birmingham, Alabama, and as Johnson makes late-night phone calls to Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP head Roy Wilkins, and Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. As fly-on-the-wall history, this book gives us an unprecedented grasp of the way the White House affected civil rights history and consequently transformed America. Part of the Presidential Recordings Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, General Editors: Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393051226
• ISBN13: 9780393051223
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Very Informative, but dry.

This text is great for real history buffs and anyone looking for more information on the civil rights movement.