Waging a Good War
#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 Americas greatest moral revolutionthe civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960sand its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King, Jr.s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 organizationthe hallmarks of any successful military campaign.
An engaging storyteller, Ricks deftly narrates the Movements 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, resistanceinvolving the bold and sustained confrontation of the Movements 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 toolthe activists James Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and Septima Clark foremost among them. He also offers a new understanding of the Movements later difficulties as internal disputes and white backlash intensified. Rich with fresh interpretations of familiar events and overlooked aspects of Americas civil rights struggle, Waging a Good War is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social changeand one that offers vital lessons for our own time.
Auteur | | Thomas E Ricks |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Hardcover |
Categorie | | Mens & Maatschappij |