Research Catalog

Title

Love in black and white : a memoir of race, religion, and romance / William S. Cohen with Janet Langhart Cohen.

Author

Cohen, William S.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Cohen, Janet Langhart, 1941-

Description

xiii, 373 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In a world where it was commonplace to see signs that read "whites only" or "Jews not allowed," William Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, the eldest son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother. Janet Langhart, an African-American, was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana by her single parent mother, a Southern Baptist. These two people, from different regions, races, and religions, are both witnesses to and targets of the social tensions of the day. Their stories are rich and profound; at times they are amusing, at others harrowing. Bill would be elected to serve his country as a U.S. Congressman and Senator, and Janet would become a prominent television personality, activist, and highly respected businesswoman and author. Opposites in so many ways--in color, faith and culture--seemingly a bundle of contradictions, they meet in 1974, become friends, and eventually marry in 1996, in the U.S. Capitol.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Cohen, William S
• Cohen, Janet Langhart, 1941-
• Legislators > United States > Biography
• Cabinet officers > United States > Biography
• Television journalists > United States > Biography
• African American women authors > Biography
• Married people > United States > Biography
• Interracial marriage > United States > Case studies
• Interfaith marriage > United States > Case studies
• United States > Race relations > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A Capitol idea -- Hancock Street -- Up south -- Shamrock and a dreidel -- Lockefield Gardens -- Destination unknown -- Hoops and dreams -- Law school and other maladies -- The windy city -- Law and politics -- Bean Town and busing -- Impeachment -- A doctor in the house -- The rest of the bastards -- Of polo and poetry -- Color codes -- Who's coming to dinner? -- The darndest things -- Lucky and Lucy -- POTUS -- Doubtless -- First lady of the Pentagon -- Song of songs.

Call Number

Sc E 07-238

ISBN

• 0742558215 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780742558212 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006028886

OCLC

71329805

Author

Cohen, William S.

Title

Love in black and white : a memoir of race, religion, and romance / William S. Cohen with Janet Langhart Cohen.

Imprint

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Cohen, Janet Langhart, 1941-

Research Call Number

Sc E 07-238