Bill Of The Century Summary

The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen is a book that tells about the struggle to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. The author, Clay Risen, is the Senior Staff Editor of the New York Times, and has written other books including, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination and, American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Spirit. He has also written for The New Republic, Smithsonian, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. He got his Master of Arts degree at The University of Chicago, and is Bachelor of Arts at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. The book itself is helpful for anyone looking for more information about the subject and useful for people to get to know the story behind the “bill of the century”. I found it useful and informative of the subject matter.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was probably the most important bill passed by Congress in the twentieth century, and that is exactly the point that this book shows. This book is largely factual over opinionated as it uses facts over the opinion of the author, but he does seem to down the side against the law by not giving much evidence for their side. The book was incredibly informative of the battle to get the Civil Rights Act passed and it shows the difficulty getting the …show more content…
It gives plenty of information on both the sides of the argument both for the movement and for discrimination. The Bill of the Century: The Battle for the Civil Rights Act is a book that I would recommend for other students to read because it is a good source of information on the struggle for civil rights. With all of the good it has done and with all that it has influenced in the twenty first century, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was truly the bill of the twentieth