Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

by Thomas E. Ricks

Book Overview

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.

Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America . . . Riveting. --Charles Kaiser, The Guardian
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374605165
• ISBN13: 9780374605162
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"