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04266cam a2200433Ka 4500 001 2AF349862B0C11DE82774608A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20090730152153 008 060126t20062005maua b 001 0deng d 020 $a 9780618641833 020 $a 0618641831 040 $a GZG $c GZG $d SILO $d YDXCP $d EUF $d BTCTA $d UV0 $d AU@ $d UIB $d SILO 050 4 $a E847.2 $b .K67 2006 082 00 $a 323/.092/2 $2 22 100 1 $a Kotz, Nick. 245 1 $a Judgment days : $b Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America / $c Nick Kotz. 250 $a 1st Mariner Books ed. 260 $a Boston : $b Houghton Mifflin, $c 2006, c2005. 300 $a xix, 522 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [480]-493) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : second emancipation -- The cataclysm -- Let us continue -- "A fellow southerner in the White House" -- Hoover, King, and two presidents -- A fire that no water could put out -- An idea whose time has come -- Lyndon Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan -- A political revolution -- Hoover attacks -- LBJ-MLK : a quiet alliance -- We shall overcome -- Shining moment -- This time the fire -- Another martyr -- Epilogue : the legacy. 520 $a The first comprehensive account of the relationship between President Johnson and Martin Luther King uses FBI wiretaps, Johnson's taped telephone conversations, and previously undisclosed communications between the two to paint a fascinating portrait of this important relationship. Opposites in almost every way, mortally suspicious of each other at first, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Both men sensed a historic opportunity and began a delicate dance of accommodation that moved them, and the entire nation, toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources -- Johnson's taped telephone conversations, voluminous FBI wiretap logs, previously secret communications between the FBI and the president -- Nick Kotz gives us a dramatic narrative, rich in dialogue, that presents this momentous period with thrilling immediacy. Judgment Days offers needed perspective on a presidency too often linked solely to the tragedy of Vietnam. We watch Johnson applying the arm-twisting tactics that made him a legend in the Senate, and we follow King as he keeps the pressure on in the South through protest and passive resistance. King's pragmatism and strategic leadership and Johnson's deeply held commitment to a just society shaped the character of their alliance. Kotz traces the inexorable convergence of their paths to an intense joint effort that made civil rights a legislative reality at last, despite FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's vicious whispering campaign to destroy King. Judgment Days also reveals how this spirit of teamwork disintegrated. The two leaders parted bitterly over King's opposition to the Vietnam War. In this first full account of the working relationship between Johnson and King, Kotz offers a detailed, surprising account that significantly enriches our understanding of both men and their time. 600 10 $a Johnson, Lyndon B. $q (Lyndon Baines), $d 1908-1973 $x Friends and associates. 600 10 $a King, Martin Luther, $c Jr., $d 1929-1968 $x Friends and associates. 600 10 $a Johnson, Lyndon B. $q (Lyndon Baines), $d 1908-1973 $x Relations with African Americans. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Legal status, laws, etc. 610 10 $a United States. $t Civil Rights Act of 1964. 610 10 $a United States. $t Voting Rights Act of 1965. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1963-1969. 651 0 $a United States $x Political aspects. $x Political aspects. 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm051/2004059852.html 941 $a 4 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611022505.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926090224.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OTAX626 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2AF349862B0C11DE82774608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search