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Memoir by the first popularly elected African-American to join the U.S. Senate.
Rutledge Hill Press
October 2006
On Sale: September 30, 2006
Featuring: Edward Brooke
332 pages
ISBN: 0813539056
EAN: 9780813539058
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
"Read about Ed Brooke-who in a just world, would have been
President-and see the kindness, wisdom and courage the
country missed. Join his friends and constituents who are
inspired and enlarged by knowing him."-Gloria Steinem,
cofounder Ms. Magazine and National Women's
Political Caucus "Senator Brooke's story shows the kind
of effective, authentic leadership our nation hungers for
today. He broke through lines of race, creed, and class to
unite Americans in the pursuit of justice and defeated the
Radical Right at critical moments in our history-sometimes
single-handedly."-Ralph G. Neas, President of People for
the American Way "Real Power is often exercised
behind the scenes. In the U.S. Congress, the scene is the
Conference between the House and Senate. There, Senator Ed
Brooke was a true master, molding a consensus between left
and right. People who seek to make the world a better place
can learn much from his story, told here for the first time
as one of the nation's quiet, but brilliant history makers
of the twentieth century."-Andrew Young, Former U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations "In an eloquent and
forthright style, Senator Ed Brooke leads us through the
extraordinary story of his life-from the grandson of a slave
to the first popularly elected African American senator. It
is a story that does honor to both the senator and the
country he served for so many years."-Sebastian Junger,
author of The Perfect Storm President Lyndon
Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard
Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be
elected to the United States Senate from liberal,
Democratic Massachusetts--a state with an African American
population of only 2 percent? The mystery of Senator Edward
Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts
attorney general to the first popularly elected African
American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable
ratings of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of
the best political minds of the day. This articulate and
charismatic man burst on the national scene in 1966 when he
ran for the Senate. His story encompasses the
turbulent post-World War II years, from the gains of the
civil rights movement, through the riotous 1960s, to the
dark days of Watergate, with stories of his relationships
with the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon Johnson,
Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and future
senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Brooke also speaks candidly
of his personal struggles, including his bitter divorce from
his first wife and, most recently, his fight against cancer.
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