Nicholas deB Katzenbach

Some of it Was Fun

Working with RFK and LBJ

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As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other issues of the day. In this engaging memoir, by turns intensely dramatic and charmingly matter-of-fact, we are treated to a ringside seat for Katzenbach's confrontation with segregationist governor George C. Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama, his efforts to steer the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress, and then his transition to the State Department, where he served at the center of the storm… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-06725-5
EAN: 9780393067255
Produktnummer: 3782802
Verlag: WW Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.8 cm 632 g
Abbildungen: 16 pages of photographs
Gewicht: 632
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Nicholas deB Katzenbach (1922 - 2012) taught law at Yale University and the University of Chicago, and served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, before becoming senior vice president and general counsel for IBM.