Strom : the complicated personal and political life of Strom Thurmond /

Strom : the complicated personal and political life of Strom Thurmond /

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Author / Creator:Bass, Jack.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Public Affairs, c2005.
Description:xvi, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Thurmond, Strom, -- 1902-2003
Thurmond, Strom, -- 1902-2003
United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography.
United States. -- Congress. -- Senate.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Legislators.
United States.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6096315
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Other authors / contributors:Thompson, Marilyn W.
ISBN:1586482971
9781586482978
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-392) and index.
Summary:First elected to public office in 1929, Strom Thurmond was a pivotal figure in the nation's politics for more than seven decades, particularly when it came to issues of race: the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, originator of the 1956 "Southern Manifesto" against the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, holder of the record for a Senate filibuster for his opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Yet as a young man Thurmond had secretly fathered a daughter with the family's black maid, and quietly supported her through college and beyond. Journalists Bass and Thompson both covered him for years and broke the big stories. In this book, they tell us a great deal about power and politics in our nation and race's twisted roots in the 20th century South.--From publisher description.

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