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Showdown by Wil Haygood
Over the course of his forty-year career, Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this galvanizing biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood uses the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, to weave a provocative and moving look at Marshall's life as well as at the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped--or desperately tried to stop--the civil rights movement. An authoritative account of one of the most transformative justices of the twentieth century, Showdown makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall's lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.Wil Haygood is a visiting distinguished professor at Miami University in Ohio, where he teaches media, journalism, and film. He worked as a national and overseas correspondent for nearly three decades, first at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and subsequently at The Washington Post. He is the author of The Butler: A Witness to History, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Country Torn Apart, and a Wonderful Season of Healing, Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Transformed America, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, In Black and White: The Life and Times of Sammy Davis Jr., Two on the River, and King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Claiborne. The Butler was later turned into a critically praised film starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Lee Daniels. For his research for Tigerland, Haygood was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellowship Literary Prize. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307947376 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307947378 |
| Title | Showdown |
| Author | Wil Haygood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2016-08-09 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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