The Gentleman from Ohio by Stokes, Louis

The Gentleman from Ohio (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814213124)

Vendor: Louis Stokes
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Format: Hardcover
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The Gentleman from Ohio by Stokes, Louis

The Gentleman from Ohio

$32.95
The Gentleman from Ohio by Stokes, Louis

The Gentleman from Ohio

$32.95
Format: Hardcover
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Louis Stokes was a giant in Ohio politics and one of the most significant figures in the U.S. Congress in recent times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there were only six African Americans serving. By the time he retired thirty years later, he had chaired the House Special Committee on the Kennedy and King assassinations, the House Ethics Committee during Abscam, and the House Intelligence Committee during Iran-Contra; he was also a senior member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

Prior to Louis Stokes's tenure in Congress he served for many years as a criminal defense lawyer and chairman of the Cleveland NAACP Legal Redress Committee. Among the Supreme Court Cases he argued, the Terry "Stop and Frisk" case is regarded as one of the twenty-five most significant cases in the court's history. The Gentleman from Ohio chronicles this and other momentous events in the life and legacy of Ohio's first black representative-a man who, whether in law or politics, continually fought for the principles he believed in and helped lead the way for African Americans in the world of mainstream American politics.


Author: Louis Stokes
ISBN-10: 081421312X
ISBN-13: 9780814213124
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2016
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By Louis Stokes
By Louis Stokes
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Louis Stokes was raised in Cleveland's projects, the son of a single mother who lost her husband when Louis was three. He was also the brother of former Cleveland mayor, Carl Stokes, who, before being elected as Cleveland's first African American mayor, was elected as the first African American Democrat in the state legislature.

David Chanoff has written on current affairs, foreign policy, education, refugee issues, literary history, and other subjects for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The American Scholar. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books.

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