Todd S. Purdum. Holt, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9672-9
The passage of the Civil Rights Act was a watershed moment of the turbulent 1960s, the culmination of vibrant grassroots activism that forced politicians to address pervasive racism in the United States. Journalist Purdum focuses the action, which...
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Todd S. Purdum. Holt, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62779-834-1
No songwriting duo is as ubiquitous in American pop culture as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, argues Purdum (An Idea Whose Time Has Come) in this thorough biography of the pair that largely focuses on two decades of wild success beginning...
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Todd S. Purdum, Author, New York Times, Joint Author . Holt/Times $25 (319p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7562-5
Not since Vietnam have journalists played a more important role in an engagement of arms than in the most recent war in Iraq. So even as soldiers and Iraqis continue to die in the uneasy aftermath, we have this surprisingly cogent and balanced...
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