Bridging the Divide : My Life.

By: Brooke, Senator Edward WMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (356 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813540085Subject(s): African American legislators -- Biography | Attorneys general -- Massachusetts -- Biography | Brooke, Edward William, -- 1919- | Legislators -- United States -- Biography | Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1951- | United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bridging the Divide : My LifeDDC classification: 328.73092 | B LOC classification: E840.8.B76 -- A3 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Inside the Cocoon -- Chapter 2: Captain Carlo -- Chapter 3: Romance in Italy -- Chapter 4: Law and Politics -- Chapter 5: "Where the Huckleberries Grow" -- Chapter 6: The Boston Finance Commission -- Chapter 7: One Vote in Worcester -- Chapter 8: Attorney General -- Chapter 9: The Strange Case of the Boston Strangler -- Chapter 10: Running for the Senate -- Chapter 11: Back to Washington -- Chapter 12: Vietnam -- Chapter 13: Member of the Club -- Chapter 14: The President Nixon I Knew -- Chapter 15: "The Freest Man in the Senate" -- Chapter 16: A Private Matter -- Chapter 17: Stormy Weather -- Chapter 18: Love and Redemption -- Chapter 19: Private Citizen -- Chapter 20: Looking Beyond -- Index -- Gallery of Images.
Summary: 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?. 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. This articulate and charismatic man burst on the national scene in 1966 when he ran for the Senate. 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 Rodham Clinton. Brooke also speaks candidly of his personal struggles, including his bitter divorce from his first wife and, most recently, his fight against cancer.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Inside the Cocoon -- Chapter 2: Captain Carlo -- Chapter 3: Romance in Italy -- Chapter 4: Law and Politics -- Chapter 5: "Where the Huckleberries Grow" -- Chapter 6: The Boston Finance Commission -- Chapter 7: One Vote in Worcester -- Chapter 8: Attorney General -- Chapter 9: The Strange Case of the Boston Strangler -- Chapter 10: Running for the Senate -- Chapter 11: Back to Washington -- Chapter 12: Vietnam -- Chapter 13: Member of the Club -- Chapter 14: The President Nixon I Knew -- Chapter 15: "The Freest Man in the Senate" -- Chapter 16: A Private Matter -- Chapter 17: Stormy Weather -- Chapter 18: Love and Redemption -- Chapter 19: Private Citizen -- Chapter 20: Looking Beyond -- Index -- Gallery of Images.

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?. 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. This articulate and charismatic man burst on the national scene in 1966 when he ran for the Senate. 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 Rodham Clinton. Brooke also speaks candidly of his personal struggles, including his bitter divorce from his first wife and, most recently, his fight against cancer.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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