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Nick Kotz - Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America Books - Drawing on an enormous amount of previously unavailable documents, including White House tapes, as well as interviews with people who were there, Nick Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the uneasy alliance between two giant figures of the 1960s--President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.--who share the credit for the passage of civil rights acts that changed history. Johnson used his expertise and influence in Congress to pass legislation that was groundbreaking in its force and clarity. Dr. King worked for change and social justice through the the public arena, including the churches and the street. Both men, raised in the South, brought different experiences to their shared realization that the past could not be the future. Kotz chronicles the events of those years in a narrative that weaves King's campaign with Johnson's presidency. He explores key aspects of both men's personalities--including their similarities and differences--and reveals their sometimes difficul
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