Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America.(Book review) From: Southern Cultures | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Judgment Days

Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America By Nick Kotz Houghton Mifflin, 2006 522 pp. Cloth $26.00

In contrast to the current emptiness of "compassionate conservatism," Nick Kotz has written an important book about a president from Texas and a preacher from Georgia who both understood civil rights for black Americans as a moral issue that the American people needed to confront with action.

Judgment Days captures the soaring hopes and successes of the 1960s, when, in the wake of President John F. Kennedy's ...

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