Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Wil Haygood ID: B013PRY1Q8
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past 100 years. Using the framework of the contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Haygood creates a provocative and moving look at Marshall’s life as well as the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped – or desperately tried to stop – the civil rights movement of the 20th century: President Lyndon Johnson; Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., whose scandals almost cost Marshall the Supreme Court judgeship; Harry and Harriette Moore, the NAACP workers killed by the KKK; Justice J. Waties Waring, a racist lawyer from South Carolina, who, after being appointed to the federal court, became such a champion of civil rights that he was forced to flee the South; John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy; Senator Strom Thurmond, the renowned racist from South Carolina, who had a black mistress and child; North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, who tried to use his Constitutional expertise to block Marshall’s appointment; Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who stated that segregation was “the law of nature, the law of God”; Arkansas senator John McClellan, who, as a boy, after Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, wrote a prize-winning school essay proclaiming that Roosevelt had destroyed the integrity of the presidency; and so many others. This galvanizing book makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall’s lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 14 hours and 25 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Random House AudioAudible.com Release Date: September 15, 2015Language: EnglishID: B013PRY1Q8 Best Sellers Rank: #22 in Books > Law > Constitutional Law > Civil Rights #28 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Nonfiction > Law #52 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Lawyers & Judges
This is an epic story of the ’60s, and I think it’s fair to say Thurgood Marshall’s story is underrepresented in most of the accounts of the Civil Rights struggle of that time. As a history, this is the definition of what a five-star book is – it’s compellingly written, packs an emotional punch, is even-handed and not a polemic, even when the figures deserve harsh criticism, and is relevant to today.
And, it focuses attention on a towering moral figure from our past, who is undeservedly a little forgotten. Or if he’s not forgotten, he’s too much a "Mandela-like" historical figure of so much stature that he’s lost his place with the ‘common man.’ This re-humanizes someone who fought past obstacles at every turn.
For all of Lyndon Johnson’s many flaws, he was single-minded. While he no doubt used racial invective, I don’t think he was a racist of any sort. I think he cared about the underdog above anything else, and saw in the "Negro" population of the time an underdog he was simply not going to let down. Nobody made Johnson pick the Civil Rights battles he fought – he chose them all, against every bit of political common sense, but left us with a better country…despite how revisionists want to find fault and blame.
Marshall stood against the most powerful US Senate in the last 100 years. These were entrenched figures of the most entrenched bigotry – Eastland, Ervin, McClellan, and they had ALL the power. Think of these guys in that era, before any technology or real oversight. They could control everything – and much of their focus was on keeping black people down. They’re villains – maybe they meant well in their time, and could die thinking they lived the right way. They didn’t.
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