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Brooke Edward William <1919-> |
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Titolo |
Bridging the divide [[electronic resource] ] : my life / / Edward W. Brooke |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2007 |
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0-8135-6793-9 |
1-281-15131-9 |
9786611151317 |
0-8135-4008-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Legislators - United States |
African American legislators |
Attorneys general - Massachusetts |
Electronic books. |
Massachusetts Politics and government 1951- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 WeatherChapter 18: Love and Redemption; Chapter 19: Private Citizen; Chapter 20: Looking Beyond; Index; Gallery of Images |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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