In Waging a Good War, Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution -- the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s -- and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.'s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to note the surprising affinities between that ethos and the organized pursuit of success at war.
In Waging a Good War, Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution -- the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s -- and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.'s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to note the surprising affinities between that ethos and the organized pursuit of success at war.
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