Culture | War without war
How the civil-rights movement succeeded
Thomas Ricks argues it had the strategic and tactical brilliance of a great military campaign
Waging a Good War. By Thomas Ricks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 448 pages; $30
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October 22nd 2022
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