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Waging a Good War

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas E. Ricks gives us a new way to understand the civil rights movement in his illuminating Waging a Good War.

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Review of ‘Waging a Good War’

Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks." James Lawson, a key figure in developing the nonviolent tactics of the civil rights movement, said, "Protracted struggle is a moral struggle that is like warfare, moral warfare." With these war analogies in mind, Pulitzer Prize…

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