Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968 by Ricks, Thomas E.
Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968 by Ricks, Thomas E.

Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take...
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Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968 by Ricks, Thomas E.

Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968

$45.30
Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968 by Ricks, Thomas E.

Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968

$45.30
Author: Thomas E. Ricks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.

"Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America . . . Riveting." --Charles Kaiser, The Guardian
In Waging a Good War, the 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 advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century 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. While bringing legends such as Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis into new focus, Ricks also highlights lesser-known figures--the activists James Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and Septima Clark foremost among them. 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.

Author: Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.86w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9781250872524

About the Author

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of multiple bestselling books, including First Principles, The Generals, and Fiasco, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams in his years at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, he has been called "the dean of military correspondents." He lives in Maine and Texas.


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