Troublesome Young Men is Lynne Olson's fascinating account of how a small group of rebellious Tory MPs defied the Chamberlain government's defeatist policies that aimed to appease Europe's tyrants and eventually forced the prime minister's resignation. On its outcome hung the future of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government and also of Britain-indeed, perhaps, the world. On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most crucial debate in British parliamentary history.
Boosted by the inspiring cover image, vigorous targeting to both markets could result in admirable sales.A riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II (Feb.) Forecast: With two distinct marketsDAf-Am and women's studiesDthis book presents a market opportunity as well as a challenge. In simple but engaging prose, Olson offers a stunning portrait gallery of little-known heroines that will appeal to any reader interested in civil rights and women's history, and she explores the psychology behind the relationships between men and women, black and white, throughout a watershed period in American history. Robinson died of cancer at 25, but her female colleagues think what really killed her was her effort to keep the movement together. Ruby Doris Smith Robinson was the only woman to hold a top leadership job in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We read about Fannie Lou Hamer, a poorly educated Mississippi native who movement leaders said could get people more worked up than Martin Luther King Jr. With a large supply of such examples, Olson, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, showcases in this extensively researched history women like Ida Mae ""Cat"" Holland, a Mississippi prostitute whose failed attempt to proposition a leader in the voter registration drive of the early 1960s led her to a life of activism and, eventually, a Ph.D. And with that, Olson says, Parks became a shining example of the role of women in the Civil Rights movement: they got things started and the men took the spotlight. ""You've said enough,"" one of the leaders told her. It was December 1955, and the meeting was packed with ministers and others who wanted to speak, among them Parks.
As Olson recounts it, the day after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the city's black leaders held a mass meeting to promote a boycott.
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