![]() ![]() This balanced account of the bitter relationship between Eisenhower and Warren presents a new lens through which to view the start of the civil rights movement. Simon is in top form, creating sympathetic portraits of both protagonists, capturing the historical context of Eisenhower’s presidency, thoroughly explaining the dynamics of the Warren Court, and, when necessary, looking past Eisenhower’s and Warren’s professed positions to expose their underlying motives and goals. ![]() Warren diametrically opposed this position he held that the Constitution demanded that integration not be delayed. Despite his support for desegregating the armed forces and for civil rights in the context of federal employment, Eisenhower felt it best to integrate the schools at a pace acceptable to Southern senators and governors. ![]() Simon’s major focus is the fallout between Eisenhower and Warren over the implementation of the court’s mandate to desegregate the country’s public school system following the unanimous ruling of Brown v. Eisenhower and his Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren to illuminate an often-overlooked period of legal history at the start of the civil rights movement. James Simon, author of the acclaimed What Kind of Nation- an account of the battle between President Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall to define the new nation - brings to vivid life the passionate struggle during the worst crisis in the nations history, the Civil War. Simon ( FDR and Chief Justice Hughes) uses twin biographies of Dwight D. ![]()
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