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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 to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts - a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edwar...

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Main Author: Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts - a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable ratings of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of the best political minds of the day.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
ISBN:9780813540085
0813540089
1281151319
9781281151315

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