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Gr. 6-12. From Booker's impassioned, well-documented perspective, African Americans' struggle for independence and political respect took on different challenges with each new U.S. president. Discussing each president separately (and sometimes in clusters from a historic period), Booker moves chronologically from Washington to Clinton, primarily focusing on the ways they fell short of supporting liberty and justice for all. Nearly all of them come off badly, yet even in the worst cases, Booker balances his arguments by reiterating that each president's stance was typical (or slightly more honorable) than most of the people of the time. Black-and-white photographs appear throughout the crisply written, authoritative text, which will make a fine addition to collections looking for materials for African American studies or political science classes. Notes and a thorough bibliography are appended. Roger Leslie
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