Strom The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond
, by Bass, Jack; Thompson, Marilyn WNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781586483920 | 1586483927
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/27/2006
Strom delivers an extraordinary look at the life of Strom Thurmond, the longtime senator from South Carolina. Thurmond was a pivotal figure in the nation's politics-particularly when it came to issues of race: the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, originator of the 1956 "Southern Manifesto" against the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, holder of the record for a Senate filibuster for his opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Yet as a young man, Thurmond had secretly fathered a daughter with the family's black maid, and he quietly supported this daughter through her enrollment at college and beyond.