TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooke,Edward W.
TI  - Bridging the divide: my life 
SN  - 9780813540085
AV  - E840.8.B76 A3 2007eb
U1  - 328.73092B 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Brooke, Edward W.
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Senate
KW  - Biography
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - fast
KW  - Legislators
KW  - African American legislators
KW  - Attorneys general
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Parlementaires
KW  - Parlementaires noirs américains
KW  - Procureurs généraux
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - Legislative Branch
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1951-
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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