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000694989 1001_ $$aRisen, Clay,$$eauthor.
000694989 24514 $$aThe bill of the century :$$bthe epic battle for the Civil Rights Act /$$cClay Risen.
000694989 250__ $$aFirst U.S. Edition.
000694989 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bBloomsbury Press,$$c2014.
000694989 300__ $$a308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm
000694989 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000694989 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000694989 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000694989 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [261]-296) and index.
000694989 5050_ $$aBad beginnings to a big year -- "A national movement to enforce national laws" -- An idea becomes a bill -- The October crisis -- "Let us continue" -- A battle is lost -- The South takes its stand -- Breaking the filibuster -- A bill becomes law.
000694989 520__ $$aOffers a full account of the complex battle to get the Civil Rights bill passed.
000694989 520__ $$a"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory: a phalanx of powerful senators, pledging to "fight to the death" for segregation, launched the longest filibuster in American history to defeat it. The bill's passage has often been credited to the political leadership of President Lyndon Johnson, or the moral force of Martin Luther King. Yet as Clay Risen shows, the battle for the Civil Rights Act was a story much bigger than those two men. It was a broad, epic struggle, a sweeping tale of unceasing grassroots activism, ringing speeches, backroom deal-making and finally, hand-to-hand legislative combat. The larger-than-life cast of characters ranges from Senate lions like Mike Mansfield and Strom Thurmond to NAACP lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, called "the 101st senator" for his Capitol Hill clout, and industrialist J. Irwin Miller, who helped mobilize a powerful religious coalition for the bill. The "idea whose time had come" would never have arrived without pressure from the streets and shrewd leadership in Congress--all captured in Risen's vivid narrative. This critical turning point in American history has never been thoroughly explored in a full-length account. Now, New York Times editor and acclaimed author Clay Risen delivers the full story, in all its complexity and drama"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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