This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper. From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice.
As far back as 1937 Charles Houston, who had been an army lieutenant in World War I, had been sending letters to President Roosevelt asking that Negroes be given the right to serve on a nonsegregated basis in the military. But as World War II broke out, the armed forces remained segregated. Black...
BUSH LEFT OFFICE, once he’d escaped the punishing grip of right-wing bullies enforcing their brand of politically correct ideas and speech codes on him, here is what the conservative Republican president dared to say about the repeated breakdown of government eff orts to resolve the national cris...