Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice The Civil Rights Tapes [Paperback]

This remarkable book is composed of actual transcriptsmost never before publishedfrom 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. Setting these transcripts within an historical narrative, Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell present the story of America's struggle for racial equality during two tumultuous years.Peer inside the White House as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson grapple with racial injustice in America.