"Read about Ed Brooke-who in a just world, would have been   President-and see the kindness, wisdom and courage the country missed. Join   his friends and constituents who are inspired and enlarged by knowing   him."-Gloria Steinem, cofounder Ms. Magazine and National Women's   Political Caucus    "Senator Brooke's story shows the kind of effective, authentic leadership   our nation hungers for today. He broke through lines of race, creed, and   class to unite Americans in the pursuit of justice and defeated the Radical   Right at critical moments in our history-sometimes single-handedly."-Ralph   G. Neas, President of People for the American Way    "Real Power is often exercised behind the scenes. In the U.S. Congress, the   scene is the Conference between the House and Senate. There, Senator Ed   Brooke was a true master, molding a consensus between left and right.   People who seek to make the world a better place can learn much from his   story, told here for the first time as one of the nation's quiet, but   brilliant history makers of the twentieth century."-Andrew Young, Former   U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations    "In an eloquent and forthright style, Senator Ed Brooke leads us through   the extraordinary story of his life-from the grandson of a slave to the   first popularly elected African American senator. It is a story that does   honor to both the senator and the country he served for so many   years."-Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm    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. This articulate and charismatic man burst on the national scene in   1966 when he ran for the Senate.     His story encompasses the turbulent post-World War II years, from the gains   of the civil rights movement, through the riotous 1960s, to the dark days   of Watergate, with stories of his relationships with the Kennedys, Martin   Luther King Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Colin   Powell, and future senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Brooke also speaks   candidly of his personal struggles, including his bitter divorce from his   first wife and, most recently, his fight against cancer.

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