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The Right To Fight: A History Of African Americans In The Military Paperback – April 24, 2001

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From the birth of the United States, African American men and women have fought and died in defense of a nation that has often denied them many fundamental rights of citizenship. Now Gerald Astor has chronicled their efforts and accomplishments in this critically acclaimed survey. From Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution, to fighters on both sides of the Civil War, Astor moves to the postwar Indian campaigns and the infamous Brownsville riot. He also documents the prejudices and grievous wrongs that have kept African Americans from service -- and finally traces their ascent to the highest levels. The Right to Fight is a groundbreaking contribution to American history.

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576 pages
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April 24, 2001
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9.08 x 5.94 x 1.9 inches
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030681031X
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978-0306810312
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World War II veteran Gerald Astor drew upon his combat experiences to author more than a dozen war books. He received his B.A. from Princeton University before working as the picture editor at Sports Illustrated during its early years and as an editor at Sport magazine, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, and Time. He died in 2008 at 81.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Press; First Edition (April 24, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 030681031X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0306810312
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.91 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.08 x 5.94 x 1.9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,486,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,442 in Black & African American History (Books)
- #2,473 in History of Technology
- #16,922 in American Military History

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The Right To Fight: A History Of African Americans In The Military bGerald Astor

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2013

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This is another book that I bought for a gift for a friend. However, after receiving it, I looked thorugh it before wrapping it and decided that I will be ordering another one--this time for my own library.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is nterested in Black History, or Military History. This is a subject that has only been one of study in the last 25-30 years, and is fascinating if one is totally unaware of this aspect of the Civil Rights movement, or Military history.

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R. Whittington

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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2014

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Great book

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Renee Y. Bratcher

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2010

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This book was needed for a class. I have found it to be a great dipiction of African American history. If you need a great source for research, this would be it.

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bukhtan

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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2007

This is a readable and graphic history, mostly from the vantage point of the common soldier. Politics in the larger sense are frequently neglected. A glaring example of this neglect is the brief and flippant coverage of President Harry Truman's actual order to desegregate the US Armed Forces, the Executive Order 9981, issued in July of 1948. This seems to me to have been the single most important event in the entire saga, yet the author dismisses Truman in three pages, mostly quoting old letters which demonstrate, surprise! that GiveEmHell Harry used coarse language (in private) when talking about racial demographics, as he did when talking about everything else (in private). Readers who are looking for an account of what led up to this decision, which Truman knew could lose the Deep South in the tight upcoming election * will need to look elsewhere. The book "Foxholes and color lines : desegregrating the U.S. Armed Forces", by Sherie Mershon and Steven Schlossman (John Hopkins, 1998) has an entire chapter on this decision which so infuriated the white South and proved to be so important in the Civil Rights era.
Another deficiency, unfortunately not unusual these days, is the complete lack of notes. There is a bibliography, but who knows where a particular fact may have come from?
A good resource, but far from comprehensive.

* he did lose the Deep South; four states to a fellow who, though he was sworn to uphold the rule of law, was known to invite adversaries in public debate out onto the street to settle their differences, and, though not officially taking an oath to do so, loudly proclaimed that he would fight with all his might against "mixing", as it was then called, forbidden interaction that could ultimately lead to miscegenation. As it happened, the wowser who gained South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi (plus an anomalous single Electoral Vote in Tennessee) but, to history's gratitude, lost the United States, had himself been guilty of miscegenation. With progeny to prove it.

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Luvs2Read

Excellent (and Necessary)!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2013

The author, Astor has done a great job! This is such an overlooked area, the African American in the military, and Lord knows there were and are plenty! They are so 'pushed under the rug', much as an earlier reviewer claims that Truman was in this book. Truman received ample coverage because the book wasn't meant to spotlight Truman; it was intended to focus on African Americans in the military, like my Dad, who was a proud WWII veteran, and my Mom, also a WWII veteran who served in the U.S. Army Womens Army Corp; now that's a story, African American women in the military. I think the gentleman's name, who is working on a film about this is Gregory S Cooke; his work was featured in Jet magazine, and he can really use some funding for this all-important venture. Anyway, great job, Mr. Astor!

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detailed but dry

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2011

The book seems thorough and incredibly detailed but it was dry and not very engaging. Also, while clearly Astor has done lots of research, there are no footnotes or indications of where the research in a given chapter comes from (although there is a bibliography at the end). The book follows the individual stories of lots of soldiers across the centuries, but instead of drawing me in, it just felt scattered.

Given the current election results, it is pretty amazing to find out that it wasn't really until the 1970's that the military made a concentrated effort to integrate systematically across all the forces. And to hear of the kind of discrimination still rampant in the Vietnam and Korean war is a reminder of how ground breaking Obama's win is.
I have been looking for a book that discusses more the tension for the African American soldier historically given his place in a predominantly racist America and fighting for that country. Buffalo soldiers even as fiction doesn't do a very good job of this.

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