The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty
by Lawrence Otis Graham
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Follows the lives and fortunes of the Bruce family, from Blanche Kelso Bruce, who was born a slave in 1841 and became the first black person to serve a full term in the Senate, to the scandal that sent his grandson to prison.Tags
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The Senator and the socialite tells the story of the Reconstruction period with the Senator and his wife as the main characters with their powerful friends. Awesome story if you like history.
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Lawrence Otis Graham is an attorney and commentator on race and politics in America. A contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report, he has written thirteen books. Graham is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. He lives in Westchester County, New York.
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Blanche Kelso Bruce; Josephine Beal Willson Bruce; Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Sr.; Clara Washington Burrill Bruce; Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Jr.; Clara Bruce, Jr. (show all 7); Burrill K. Bruce
- Important places
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Dedication
- To my mother, Betty Johnyce walker Graham, for challenging bias with courage and grace. To my father, Richard Charles Graham, for remembering our people's history. To my wife, Pamela Thomas-Graham, for everything else.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So, even as individual attempts have been made to keep the senator's history from slipping away from the nation's collective memory, it is more and more apparent that the black upper-class dynasty he and his wife created more than one hundred years ago was one that broke more social, political, economic, and racial barriers than perhaps any other American family.
- Publisher's editor
- Marjorie Braman
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 929.208996073 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Genealogy, Flags, Heraldry, Civil Records Families Families
- LCC
- E664 .B865 .G73 — History of the United States United States Late nineteenth century, 1865-1900 Biography
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.65)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 4
