Bridging the divide : my life /
Brooke, Edward W. 1919-2015.
Bridging the divide : my life / Edward W. Brooke. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes index.
Inside the cocoon -- Captain Carlo -- Romance in Italy -- Law and politics -- "Where the huckleberries grow" -- The Boston finance commission -- One vote in Worcester -- Attorney General -- The strange case of the Boston strangler -- Running for the senate -- Back to Washington -- Vietnam -- Member of the club -- The President Nixon I knew -- "The freest man in the senate" -- A private matter -- Stormy weather -- Love and redemption -- Private citizen -- Looking beyond.
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.
9780813540085 (electronic bk.) 0813540089 (electronic bk.) 1281151319 9781281151315 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Brooke, Edward W. 1919-2015.
Brooke, Edward W. 1919-2015.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
États-Unis. Congress. Senate --Biographies.
United States. Congress. Senate.
Since 1951
Legislators--United States--Biography.
African American legislators--Biography.
Attorneys general--Massachusetts--Biography.
Parlementaires--États-Unis--Biographies.
Parlementaires noirs américains--Biographies.
Procureurs généraux--Massachusetts--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--Legislative Branch.
African American legislators.
Attorneys general.
Legislators.
Politics and government
Massachusetts--Politics and government--1951-
Massachusetts--Politique et gouvernement--1951-
Massachusetts.
United States.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
E840.8.B76 / A3 2007eb
328.73092 B
Bridging the divide : my life / Edward W. Brooke. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes index.
Inside the cocoon -- Captain Carlo -- Romance in Italy -- Law and politics -- "Where the huckleberries grow" -- The Boston finance commission -- One vote in Worcester -- Attorney General -- The strange case of the Boston strangler -- Running for the senate -- Back to Washington -- Vietnam -- Member of the club -- The President Nixon I knew -- "The freest man in the senate" -- A private matter -- Stormy weather -- Love and redemption -- Private citizen -- Looking beyond.
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.
9780813540085 (electronic bk.) 0813540089 (electronic bk.) 1281151319 9781281151315 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Brooke, Edward W. 1919-2015.
Brooke, Edward W. 1919-2015.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
États-Unis. Congress. Senate --Biographies.
United States. Congress. Senate.
Since 1951
Legislators--United States--Biography.
African American legislators--Biography.
Attorneys general--Massachusetts--Biography.
Parlementaires--États-Unis--Biographies.
Parlementaires noirs américains--Biographies.
Procureurs généraux--Massachusetts--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--Legislative Branch.
African American legislators.
Attorneys general.
Legislators.
Politics and government
Massachusetts--Politics and government--1951-
Massachusetts--Politique et gouvernement--1951-
Massachusetts.
United States.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
E840.8.B76 / A3 2007eb
328.73092 B