Judgment days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America

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Cataclysm -- Let us continue -- "Fellow Southerner in the White House" -- Hoover, King, and two presidents -- Fire that no water could put out -- Idea whose time has come -- Lyndon Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan -- Political revolution -- Hoover attacks -- LBJ-MLK, a quiet alliance -- We shall overcome -- Shining moment -- This time the fire -- Another martyr -- Epilogue, the legacy.;Opposite in almost every way, mortally suspicious of each other at first, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Both men sensed an historic opportunity and moved ... the entire nation toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ... [This book] offers needed perspective on a presidency too often linked solely to the tragedy of Vietnam.-Dust jacket. Cataclysm -- Let us continue -- "Fellow Southerner in the White House" -- Hoover, King, and two presidents -- Fire that no water could put out -- Idea whose time has come -- Lyndon Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan -- Political revolution -- Hoover attacks -- LBJ-MLK, a quiet alliance -- We shall overcome -- Shining moment -- This time the fire -- Another martyr -- Epilogue, the legacy.