Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes

Peer inside the White House as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson grapple with racial injustice in America. This remarkable book is composed of actual transcripts—most never before published—from the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of White House meetings and telephone conversations between the violent crisis in 1962, when James Meredith attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi, and the groundbreaking passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Sett...