Ricks Thomas E.
Ricks Thomas E. - Waging A Good War How The Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles 1954 - 1968 - Paperback
Ricks Thomas E. - Waging A Good War How The Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles 1954 - 1968 - Paperback
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Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America Riveting. Charles Kaiser The Guardian In Waging a Good War the bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.'s ethos of nonviolence Ricks a Pulitzer Prize winning war reporter draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone but by paying attention to recruiting training discipline and organization the hallmarks of any successful military campaign. An engaging storyteller Ricks deftly narrates the Movement's triumphs and defeats. He follows King and other key figures from Montgomery to Memphis demonstrating that Gandhian nonviolence was a philosophy of active not passive resistance. While bringing legends such as Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis into new focus Ricks also highlights lesser - known figures the activists James Lawson James Bevel Diane Nash and Septima Clark foremost among them. Rich with fresh interpretations of familiar events and overlooked aspects of America's civil rights struggle Waging a Good War is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change.
Title: Waging A Good War How The Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles 1954 - 1968
Author(s): Ricks Thomas E.
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250872524
Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Civil Rights & Citizenship
Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America Riveting. Charles Kaiser The Guardian In Waging a Good War the bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.'s ethos of nonviolence Ricks a Pulitzer Prize winning war reporter draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone but by paying attention to recruiting training discipline and organization the hallmarks of any successful military campaign. An engaging storyteller Ricks deftly narrates the Movement's triumphs and defeats. He follows King and other key figures from Montgomery to Memphis demonstrating that Gandhian nonviolence was a philosophy of active not passive resistance. While bringing legends such as Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis into new focus Ricks also highlights lesser - known figures the activists James Lawson James Bevel Diane Nash and Septima Clark foremost among them. Rich with fresh interpretations of familiar events and overlooked aspects of America's civil rights struggle Waging a Good War is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change.
Title: Waging A Good War How The Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles 1954 - 1968
Author(s): Ricks Thomas E.
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250872524
Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Civil Rights & Citizenship
