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Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights

Title
Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights / Steven Levingston.
Author
Levingston, Steven
Publication
  • New York, NY : Hachette Books, [2017]
  • ©2017
Supplementary Content
http://stevenlevingston.com/

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Description
xi, 511 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.
  • "The story of civil rights in the early 1960s is a tale of courageous sit-ins and marches, police brutality, violence, and murder. It is also a tale of two men: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., a pair of gifted, charismatic, and ambitious leaders from strikingly different worlds. When they first met in 1960, as Kennedy lobbied King to back his bid for the presidency, the wealthy Irish Catholic and the Southern Baptist preacher had little natural rapport. Kennedy was cool and witty, King taut and high-minded. Kennedy was slow to embrace a full-throated position on equality for black Americans, fearing the wrath of southern Democrats. Over the next three years--as America was transfixed by a series of dramatic demonstrations across the South--it was King, more than any other figure, who led Kennedy to finally make a moral commitment to civil rights; and it was Kennedy's hesitation that prompted King to achieve his greatest potential as an activist. This unique and transformative relationship has never been explored in such gripping fashion. From Harry Belafonte's Manhattan apartment to the Birmingham city jail to Joseph Kennedy's Palm Beach estate, [this book] delivers a narrative both public and intimate: the risky strategies, secret meetings, outrageous personalities, and private struggles that absorbed the lives of these two men--and forever bound them together."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Biography.
  • History.
Note
  • "June 2017"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-489) and index.
Contents
"To teach a president" -- Two men, two worlds -- A call to Coretta -- "Tomorrow may be too late" -- "Pawns in a white man's political game" -- "It often helps me to be pushed" -- Epilogue.
Call Number
Sc E 18-427
ISBN
  • 9780316267397
  • 0316267392
  • 0316267384
  • 9780316267380
  • 9780316267403 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780316552455 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2017302125
OCLC
958797649
Author
Levingston, Steven, author.
Title
Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights / Steven Levingston.
Publisher
New York, NY : Hachette Books, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-489) and index.
Connect to:
http://stevenlevingston.com/
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-427
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