The civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 60s changed America. It's hard to think of the nonviolent movement and its leader, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in military terms. Yet that's exactly what Tom Ricks does in a very interesting book out this fall, “Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.” “There is a direct relationship between wars and struggles for civil rights,” Ricks writes in an advance copy of the book I read. My skepticism vanished. This is Ricks seventh non-fiction book on the military themes. He is an acclaimed historian, after a distinguished reporting career at the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. As the Journal's Wa
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