A Matter of Justice
Autor David A. Nicholsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2008
In this sweeping narrative, David A. Nichols demonstrates that these assumptions are wrong. Drawing on archival documents neglected by biographers and scholars, including thousands of pages newly available from the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Nichols takes us inside the Oval Office to look over Ike's shoulder as he worked behind the scenes, prior to Brown, to desegregate the District of Columbia and complete the desegregation of the armed forces. We watch as Eisenhower, assisted by his close collaborator, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., sifted through candidates for federal judgeships and appointed five pro-civil rights justices to the Supreme Court and progressive judges to lower courts. We witness Eisenhower crafting civil rights legislation, deftly building a congressional coalition that passed the first civil rights act in eighty-two years, and maneuvering to avoid a showdown with Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, over desegregation of Little Rock's Central High.
Nichols demonstrates that Eisenhower, though he was a product of his time and its backward racial attitudes, was actually more progressive on civil rights in the 1950s than his predecessor, Harry Truman, and his successors, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Eisenhower was more a man of deeds than of words and preferred quiet action over grandstanding. His cautious public rhetoric -- especially his legalistic response to Brown -- gave a misleading impression that he was not committed to the cause of civil rights. In fact, Eisenhower's actions laid the legal and political groundwork for the more familiar breakthroughs in civil rights achieved in the 1960s.
Fair, judicious, and exhaustively researched, A Matter of Justice is the definitive book on Eisenhower's civil rights policies that every presidential historian and future biographer of Ike will have to contend with.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781416541516
ISBN-10: 1416541519
Pagini: 353
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:08000
Editura: Simon&Schuster
ISBN-10: 1416541519
Pagini: 353
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:08000
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Descriere
On the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, a leading authority on the Eisenhower presidency mines historical archives to show that Ike boldly advanced the cause of civil rights and laid the groundwork for breakthroughs that would follow.
Notă biografică
David A. Nichols