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100 1 $aLevingston, Steven.
245 10$aKennedy and King :$bthe president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights /$cSteven Levingston.
246 30$aThe president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights.
250 $aFirst trade paperback ed.
260 $aNew York NY :$bHachette Books,$c2018
300 $axi, 511 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $a"The story of civil rights in the early 1960s is a tale of courageous sit-ins and marches, police brutality, violence, and murder. It is also a tale of two men: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., a pair of gifted, charismatic, and ambitious leaders from strikingly different worlds. When they first met in 1960, as Kennedy lobbied King to back his bid for the presidency, the wealthy Irish Catholic and the Southern Baptist preacher had little natural rapport. Kennedy was cool and witty, King taut and high-minded. Kennedy was slow to embrace a full-throated position on equality for black Americans, fearing the wrath of southern Democrats. Over the next three years--as America was transfixed by a series of dramatic demonstrations across the South--it was King, more than any other figure, who led Kennedy to finally make a moral commitment to civil rights; and it was Kennedy's hesitation that prompted King to achieve his greatest potential as an activist. This unique and transformative relationship has never been explored in such gripping fashion. From Harry Belafonte's Manhattan apartment to the Birmingham city jail to Joseph Kennedy's Palm Beach estate, [this book] delivers a narrative both public and intimate: the risky strategies, secret meetings, outrageous personalities, and private struggles that absorbed the lives of these two men--and forever bound them together."--Jacket.
600 10$aKennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.
600 10$aKing, Martin Luther, Jr.,$d1929-1968.
650 0$aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0$aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican American civil rights workers$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century.