Bridging the Divide My Life  -  Edward William Brooke

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President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusettsa state with an African American population of only 2 percent? . . . And he wasn't even Catholic. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable ratings...
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Uitgever: Rutgers University Press 332 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0813539056 ISBN-13: 9780813539058