Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

RoyHobbs said American Democracy At Its Best And Worst. Before there were Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama, there was Thurgood Marshall.In countless ways, he was braver than all the racial pioneers who followed him and arguably as brave or braver still than those who broke racial and social barriers before him.He is very much lost in the current political landscape with the . L. Carter said Should be required reading in high schools and colleges and law schools. I couldn't put it down! I was shocked at the tactics and the lack of respect for checks and balances by LBJ. Great book for high school students to read. EVERYONE going to law school should read it. So much of our civil rights history is discussed in this book as background. I have researched other topics as a result of reading this book. Please. CB Bassity said A great story well told.. Having read Haygood’s excellent book on Sammy Davis Jr. (whom I would not have expected to interest me), I came to this story with high expectations that were entirely fulfilled. This story is almost electric in its impact, captivating from start to finish.Thurgood Marshall was a giant, an indefatigable advocate for the downtrodden, and hi

Washington to dinner at the White House, wrote a prize-winning school essay proclaiming that Roosevelt had destroyed the integrity of the presidency; and so many others. This galvanizing book makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall's lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.. Waties Waring, a racist lawyer from South Carolina, who, after being appointed to the federal court, became such a champion of civil rights that he was forced to flee the South; John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy; Senator Strom Thurmond, the renowned racist from South Carolina, who had a black mistress and child; North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, who tried to use his Constitutional expertise to block Marshall's appointment; Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, the head of th