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Author Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015.

Title Bridging the divide : my life / Edward W. Brooke
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
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Subject Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015.
SUBJECT Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015 fast
Subject United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
SUBJECT United States. Congress. Senate fast
Subject Legislators -- United States -- Biography
African American legislators -- Biography
Attorneys general -- Massachusetts -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
African American legislators
Attorneys general
Legislators
Politics and government
SUBJECT Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081947
Subject Massachusetts
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813540085
0813540089
1281151319
9781281151315