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Title: The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Robert Mann ISBN: 0-15-600501-8 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 15 June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Historic Power Gambit. A Story That Needs to be Remembered
Comment: This truly is a monumental period of American history - ending segregation and giving blacks the right to vote. It was often violent. It took a few timely events and the masterful skills of a handful of people to make this happen, like LBJ.
Hubert Humphrey must be recognized as one of America's most important leaders. When he died, Humphrey was lain in state with the ceremonial honors of a president. It's no surprise that the airport, stadium, and University of Minnesota government campus in Minnesota, among others, are named after Humphrey.
Yet this story is also told in a balanced way. You get to know the characters and why they move as they do.
Read this for the fascinating drama... and the history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Story of struggle and inspiration
Comment: The Walls of Jericho offers a riveting, close-up and personal review of the political struggles of the Civil Rights movement, seen through the eyes of three is its major protagonists. Author Robert Mann carries us to know and understand southerner, racist Richard Russell, southerner human rights supporter Lyndon Johnson, and northerner firebrand liberal Hubert Humphrey. We agree with them, or disagree with them, Mann allows us to understand where they are coming from. In the end, they are good men trying to do good things, as they see them to be good. I was emotionally struck in reading about the personal, political, and social interplay.
Rating: 5
Summary: A highly perceptive and well written account.
Comment: This is a clear discussion of the process whereby civil rights legislation passed the Senate in the late 1950's and the 1960's, despite the filibusters threatened and actual of the Southern Democratic senators. It could easily have been a book about political re-alignment as well, but it would probably need to be twice as long. Many of the trends that dictated the course of American politics in the 1960's are seen in microcosm in this book - Would the South bolt the Democratic Party? Would the Democrats capture the African-American vote from the party of Lincoln? Could a Southern Democrat win the Whitehouse? Would the Dixiecrats throw the presidency to the GOP? It is an extremely clear narrative, that occasionally looks at the bigger picture of American politics, and records the force of personality in parliamentary politics. It clearly records the seismic changes that the wily and calculating LBJ, as an otherwise unelectable Southern Democrat, wrought to the Democratic Party after President Kennedy's death, in the search for a personal victory in the 1964 presidential election.
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Title: The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Learning Studies) by Joseph A., Jr. Califano ISBN: 0890969604 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics by Hubert H. Humphrey ISBN: 0816618976 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam by Robert Mann ISBN: 0465043704 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin ISBN: 0312060270 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's White House Tapes, 1964-1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson, Michael Beschloss ISBN: 0743508416 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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