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In Waging a Good War, best-selling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution — the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s — and its legacy today. While the movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks, a Pulitzer prize–winning war reporter, draws on his deep knowledge of tactics

In his new book, the historian considers the work of Martin Luther King and others through the lens of military thought

Civil rights leaders waged nonviolent campaigns as carefully as if they were military operations. A historian unpacks lessons from their strategy.

In “Waging a Good War,” Thomas E. Ricks examines the civil rights movement through the lens of military history.

Author and journalist Tom Ricks along with the Washington Monthly's Debra Dickerson discuss Ricks' new book 'Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.'

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Thomas Ricks about his book on a military history of the civil rights movement: Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Thomas Ricks about his book on a military history of the civil rights movement: "Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968."

On Sept. 21, he shared his vision for a just transition with the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. And here's what he told them.

Contemporary Russian politics are too often analysed without sufficient knowledge of Russian history. -- Orlando Figes, The Story of Russia, p 268 The conflict among nations in Ukraine and the breakaway Donbass oblasts/republics has been magnified in western monopoly media since Russia backed up its security demands. To the extent that people want to ascertain

The Biden administration would do well to heed the lessons of the atomic bombings of Japan.