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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 Massachusetts - a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edwar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Brooke, Edward W. > (Edward William), > 1919-2015.
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Biography.
États-Unis. > Congress. > Senate > Biographies.
United States. > Congress. > Senate.
Since 1951
Legislators > United States > Biography.
African American legislators > Biography.
Attorneys general > Massachusetts > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Parlementaires noirs américains > Biographies.
Procureurs généraux > Massachusetts > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
African American legislators.
Attorneys general.
Legislators.
Politics and government
Massachusetts > Politics and government > 1951-
Massachusetts > Politique et gouvernement > 1951-
Massachusetts.
United States.
collective biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
ISBN:9780813540085
0813540089
1281151319
9781281151315

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