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Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
Author(s): Josh Gottheimer (Editor), Bill Clinton (Foreword)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 1 May 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0465027520
- ISBN-13: 9780465027521
Book Description
A stirring collection of civil rights speaches includes a never-before-published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in a volume that captures the civil rights movements of African Americans, gays, Asian Americans, women, and Hispanic Americans. 30,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Joshua Gottheimer is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a student at Harvard Law School. A former Sir John and Lady Thouron Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, he is now a candidate for a doctor of philosophy in modern history there. From 1998 to 2001 he was the special assistant, speechwriter, and staff director to former president Bill Clinton. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
