Bibliograph

Jesse, the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, Marshall Frady

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Jesse, the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, Marshall Frady

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-552)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jesse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

33244104

Responsibility statement

Marshall Frady

Sub title

the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

Summary

Describes the life of Jesse Jackson, a civil rights worker who dreamed of becoming an "American Gandhi" since his youth

Table Of Contents

The man first encountered -- The gift and the hunger -- Carrying the gospel -- "You belong and yet you don't" -- Outsider -- The heroic obsession -- Beginning the quest to belong -- History is upon us -- The acolyte -- The struggle for moral succession -- Coming into his own : the economic apostle -- "It's nation time" -- The dilemma of soul politics -- The guerrilla candidacy -- An uncontainable force -- A campaign of democratic poetries -- The deperation after coming this far -- Taking gospel populism abroad -- Coming back home -- A battle against invisibility -- The Clinton tribulation -- "The way you begin is the way you end" -- The Iraq coda

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