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050	1	4	_aKF 4744 _bP985i 2014
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100	1		_aPurdum, Todd S.
245	1	3	_aAn idea whose time has come : _btwo presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / _cTodd S. Purdum.
260			_aNew York, New York : _bHenry Holt and Company, _c2014
300			_a398 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm
520			_a"A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passageIt was a turbulent time in America--a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door--when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because, as one influential senator put it, it was "an idea whose time has come."In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed, in just over a year, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history. Often hailed as the most important law of the past century, the Civil Rights Act stands as a lesson for our own troubled times about what is possible when patience, bipartisanship, and decency rule the day. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 369-375)and index.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _tCivil Rights Act of 1964.
650		0	_aCivil rights _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1961-1963.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1963-1969.
650		4	_aDerechos civiles _xHistoria _zEstados Unidos.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xPolítica y gobierno _y1961-1963
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xPolítica y gobierno _y1963-1969
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. _2bisacsh
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/729/9780805096729/image/lgcover.9780805096729.jpg
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