Waging a good war : a military history of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

Title Waging a good war : a military history of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
Names Ricks, Thomas E.
Book Number DB111044
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
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Annotation "In Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution-the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s-and its legacy today. While the movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.'s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter, draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to note the surprising affinities between that ethos and the organized pursuit of success at war. The greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century, he stresses, were won not by idealism alone, but by paying attention to recruiting, training, discipline, and organization-the hallmarks of any successful military campaign. An engaging storyteller, Ricks deftly narrates the movement's triumphs and defeats. He follows King and other key figures from Montgomery to Memphis, demonstrating that Gandhian nonviolence was a philosophy of active, not passive, resistance - involving the bold and sustained confrontation of the Movement's adversaries, both on the ground and in the court of public opinion. While bringing legends such as Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis into new focus, Ricks also highlights lesser-known figures who played critical roles in fashioning nonviolence into an effective tool-the activists James Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and Septima Clark foremost among them. He also offers a new understanding of the Movement's later difficulties as internal disputes and white backlash intensified. Rich with fresh interpretations of familiar events and overlooked aspects of America's civil rights struggle, Waging a Good War is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change-and one that offers vital lessons for our own time." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Jackson, JD.
Local Subject Civil & political rights - 323
Black Interest - BLK
BLACK NON-FICTION - BLN
BLACK HISTORY - BLH
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S. - 20th Century - HUT
Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
LC Subject African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century
Military art and science - United States
Nonviolence - United States - History - 20th century
Strategy
Tactics
Nonfiction
Call Number 323.1196073 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2022 9781250868633. 2022
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