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The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first black dynasty Lawrence Otis Graham
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 664 .B865 G73 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Lawrence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898.
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso.
- Bruce, Josephine.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- African American legislators--Biography.
- African American legislators.
- Legislators' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Legislators' spouses.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, 1879-1950.
- Bruce, Roscoe Conkling.
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898--Family.
- Bruce family.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 455 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1875: A senator is sworn in and a dynasty begins
- 1841-1861: Blanche Bruce's slave family in Virginia and Missouri
- 1841-1860: The free aristocratic family of Josephine Wilson
- 1862-1870: Bruce finds Kansas freedom, Ohio education, and Mississippi reconstruction
- 1870-1874: Bruce builds a base of power in Mississippi and is elected to the U.S. Senate
- 1877-1878: A senator and a socialite Marry despite family and class conflicts
- 1878: A Black dynasty begins
- 1879-1880: A new child and a new redemption congress
- 1880-1888: Bruce leaves the Senate, joins the Treasury Department, then enters private life
- 1889-1895: Bruce persuades President Harrison to give him a job and his wife gains her independence
- 1895-1898: The senator gets appointed by President McKinley as his son breaks barriers at Phillips Exeter; the senator dies
- March 1898-June 1902: The senator's son begins a courtship at Harvard, and the senator's widow carries out a legacy
- 1902: Roscoe builds an alliance with Booker T. Washington
- 1902: A marriage of the second generation, and life in Tuskegee
- December 1903-1906: Roscoe and Clara build the next generation
- 1906-1914: A triumphant return to Washington life: the Bruce family's second generation emerges
- 1915-1922: Roscoe's downfall in Washington
- 1923-1924: Roscoe struggles with Harvard's President, his family finances, and his children's success
- 1925-1929: The family moves to Cambridge and New York, and Roscoe builds an alliance with John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- 1930-1939: The third generation makes news, and the senator's grandson goes to prison
- 1940-1967: The third Bruce generation erases a proud history.
- Notes:
- Originally published: HarperCollins, 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-435) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780060985134
- 0060985135
- OCLC:
- 148674860
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