Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America.(Book Review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: October 18, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America.

By Nick Kotz. Houghton Mifflin, 544 pp., $26.00.

LYNDON JOHNSON and Martin Luther King Jr. "were unlikely partners, the master politician who became president and the eloquent minister who led a revolution," Nick Kotz begins his superbly told story. "Yet they came to work together in a political pas de deux of immense complexity and fragility to produce the most dramatic social change since the Emancipation Proclamation."

King and Johnson's relationship began on the day of ...

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