Detailing his meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African-American U.S. senator, Edward Brooke's story encompasses the turbulent post-World War II years, from the gains of the civil rights movement through the riotous 1960s to the dark days of Watergate.
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Detailing his meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African-American U.S. senator, Edward Brooke's story encompasses the turbulent post-World War II years, from the gains of the civil rights movement through the riotous 1960s to the dark days of Watergate.
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Like New. Size: 5x1x9; [Includes an original typed letter signed from Edward Brooke to Barbara Putnam, dated 1975. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. XIII, 332 p. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American US senator confounded many of the best political minds of the day. This book includes an original, 1962 signed-typed letter from Brooke to a Franklin County, Mass. Republican Representative thanking him for his support in his election to the state's Attorney General.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Ephemera about a lecture on the book by Senator Brooke laid in. DJ has slight weear, soiling and sticker residue. xiii, 332 p. Illustrations. Index 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 Massachusetts-a 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 of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of the best political minds of the day. After winning a name for himself as the first black man to be elected a state's attorney general, as a crime fighter, and as the organizer of the Boston Strangler Task Force, this articulate and charismatic man burst on the national scene in 1966 when he ran for the Senate. In two terms in the Senate during some of the most racially tormented years of the twentieth century, Brooke, through tact, personality, charm, and determination, became a highly regarded member of "the most exclusive club in the world." The only African American senator ever to be elected to a second term, Brooke established a reputation for independent thinking and challenged the powerbrokers and presidents of the day in defense of the poor and disenfranchised. In this autobiography, Brooke details the challenges that confronted African American men of his generation and reveals his desire to be measured not as a black man in a white society but as an individual in a multiracial society. Chided by some in the white community as being "too black to be white" and in the black community as "too white to be black, " Brooke sought only to represent the people of Massachusetts and the national interest. His story encompasses the turbulent post-World War II years, from the gains of the civil rights movement, through the riotous 1960s, to the dark days of Watergate, with stories of his relationships with the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and future senator Hillary Clinton. Brooke also speaks candidly of his personal struggles, including his bitter divorce from his first wife and, most recently, his fight against cancer. A dramatic, compelling, and inspirational account, Brooke's life story demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit, offering lessons about politics, life, reconciliation, and love.
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Like New. INSCRIBED! New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 1st edition. Sm 4to hardcover. 332pp. Inscribed by author on title page. Fine book and Near Fine dust jacket. (Autobiography, African American Legislators, Republican, United States Senator, Massachusetts Attorney General) Inquire if you need further information.
Biography of a remarkable gentleman who served his nation in many ways, from his Army service to Attorney-General and later two-term Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
