Arguing that Harry Truman was the most influencial, trend-setting twentieth-century president in the arena of civil rights, the author shows how the tough-talking grandson of slave owners managed to overcome his background to make progress in race relations. (History)
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Michael R. Gardner is a communications policy attorney in Washington, D.C. He also serves as the pro bono chairman of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute, a nonprofit international training initiative he founded in 1982 while serving as the U.S. ambassador to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. A graduate of the College at Georgetown University and of the Georgetown University Law School, Gardner has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has also served on four presidential commissions under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush senior.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Hardcover. Full green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine/lacking the dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Octavo, 276 pages, including Index. Gray endpapers. Forewords by George M. Elsey and Kweisi Mfume. A study of Truman's bold decision to advance civil rights in the face of deep political opposition. The book explores Truman's pivotal 1948 executive order desegregating the armed forces, and the broader legacy of his presidency on race relations and American democracy. Gardner was a senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and later served as U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This was his first book. Artikel-Nr. F800-Truman
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