"Attorneys general History 17th century Biography Massachusetts." . . . . . . . . "\"In 1967, Edward Brooke became the first popularly elected African-American to join the U.S. Senate. Now 86, the liberal Republican serves up an autobiography with plenty of interesting stories about the Second World War, the tumultuous post-war period and the Vietnam era in an engaging, intelligent and humble voice\"--Publishers Weekly." . . . . . . . . . "Biography" . "Biography"@en . . "Bridging the divide my life"@en . "Bridging the divide my life" . . . . "President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts - a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable ratings of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of the best political minds of the day."@en . . . "Bridging the divide : my life" . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Abgeordneter." . . "Massachusetts" . . "Massachusetts Politics and government 1951-" . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE Government Legislative Branch." . . "Legislators United States." . . "Edward William@Brooke*1919-*" . . "Electronic books." . . "Legislators History 17th century Biography United States." . . "African American legislators History 17th century Biography United States." . . "Since 1951" . . "Schwarze." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Political." . . "African American legislators." . . . . "Attorneys general Massachusetts." . . "United States Senate France History Biography Constitution." . .