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xi Acknowledgments Originally published by Harcourt Brace in under the title The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, this volume is an abridged and revised version of the original text that incorporates scholarship and archival material not available in . The original text and this version could not have been written without the support and assistance of others. Many people deserve my wholehearted gratitude: My then-literary agent, the late Clyde Taylor, for his friendship, his wise counsel, and his aggressive advocacy. Clyde’s sudden death several years ago was an enormous blow to his friends and family. Even now, not many days pass that I don’t think of Clyde and regret that he is not on the other end of the phone line for an idle chat or a vigorous discussion of politics or history. It is to Clyde and his memory that this book is dedicated with lasting affection. Rand Dotson, my editor at LSU Press, for his enthusiasm for the book, his counsel, and his patience while my professional responsibilities delayed the project for several years. My original editor at Harcourt Brace, John Radziewicz, for his encouragement , his help in improving the first manuscript, and his commitment to the project; and Dan Hammer, who copyedited the original manuscript with great skill and who remains a true and valued friend. The staff of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, including Allen Fisher, Linda Hanson, and E. Philip Scott; the staff of the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies in Athens, Georgia, particularly Pam Hackbart-Dean and Sheryl B. Vogt; the staff of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington , D.C.; the staff at the Minnesota Historical Society in Saint Paul; and the staff of the U.S. Senate Library. xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For research assistance, Sue Kerr and Marci Lichtl, who were graduate students in the political science department at Louisiana State University. For their cheerful help and guidance, I wish to give special recognition to many librarians and students at the Middleton Library at Louisiana State University and to the staff of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. Several people helped me immensely with their honest and insightful scrutiny of the original manuscript, in whole or in part. They are Dave Norris, George Reedy, Max Kampelman, Wayne Parent, Paul Mann, Vincent Marsala, George Brazier, Clyde Taylor, and Raymond Wolfinger. While these people improved the manuscript with their thoughtful and careful critiques, any errors of fact or any flawed conclusions are the fault of no one but the author. Those wishing to inform me of errors may write to me in care of my publisher. I must pay tribute to the many journalists and historians whose works proved helpful to my research. In chronicling the broader civil rights movement , I benefited from several excellent sources, including Taylor Branch’s well-researched trilogy of the King years: Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge; David Garrow’s exhaustive biography of King, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Adam Fairclough’s To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.; and The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, –, by Hugh Davis Graham. I also owe debts of gratitude to Gilbert Fite for his biography Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia; Robert A. Caro for his monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power (Vol. ), Means of Ascent (Vol. ), and Master of the Senate (Vol. ); the late Merle Miller for the invaluable oral history interviews contained in his biography, Lyndon; the late Hubert H. Humphrey for his refreshingly candid autobiography, The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics; and Denton L. Watson, for his exhaustive biography of Clarence Mitchell, Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.’s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws. Four books in particular helped me understand the culture of the Senate in the s: U.S. Senators and Their World, by Donald R. Matthews; Citadel : The Story of the U.S. Senate, by William S. White; Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics, by Fred R. Harris; and The U.S. Senate: Paralysis or a Search for Consensus? by George E. Reedy. [18.221.222.47] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 04:23 GMT...
