{"title":"Taylor Branch","description":"Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.","products":[{"product_id":"pillar-of-fire-america-in-the-king-years-1963-65-paperback","title":"Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. Beginning with the Nation of Islam and conflict over racial separatism, Pillar of Fire takes the reader to Mississippi and Alabama: Birmingham, the murder of Medgar Evers, the \"March on Washington,\" the Civil Rights Act, and voter registration drives. In 1964, King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Branch's magnificent trilogy makes clear why the Civil Rights Movement, and indeed King's leadership, are among the nation's enduring achievements. In bringing these decades alive, preserving the integrity of those who marched and died, Branch gives us a crucial part of our history and heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366077595871,"sku":"9780684848099","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pnxGDA1xEt9780684848099.webp?v=1789080784"},{"product_id":"parting-the-waters-america-in-the-king-years-1954-63-paperback","title":"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eParting the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a \"compelling...masterfully told\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, \u003ci\u003eParting the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to endure for generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEpic in scope and impact, Branch's chronicle definitively captures one of the nation's most crucial passages.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366079791327,"sku":"9780671687427","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DKiaxFvLFa9780671687427.webp?v=1789080800"},{"product_id":"at-canaans-edge-america-in-the-king-years-1965-68-paperback","title":"At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history.The final volume of Taylor Branch's monumental, much honored, and definitive history of the Civil Rights Movement (America in the King Years), At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement together in the face of factionalism within the Movement, hostility and harassment of the Johnson Administration, the country torn apart by Vietnam, and his own attempt (and failure) to take the Freedom Movement north. At Canaan's Edge traces a seminal era in our defining national story, freedom. The narrative resumes in Selma, crucible of the voting rights struggle for black people across the South. The time is early 1965, when the modern Civil Rights Movement enters its second decade since the Supreme Court's Brown decision declared segregation by race a violation of the Constitution. From Selma, King's non-violent Movement is under threat from competing forces inside and outside. Branch chronicles the dramatic voting rights drives in Mississippi and Alabama, Meredith's murder, the challenge to King from the Johnson Administration and the FBI and other enemies. When King tries to bring his Movement north (to Chicago), he falters. Finally we reach Memphis, the garbage strike, King's assassination. Branch's magnificent trilogy makes clear why the Civil Rights Movement, and indeed King's leadership, are among the nation's enduring achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366082379999,"sku":"9780684857138","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zRWOZky6AV9780684857138.webp?v=1789080820"},{"product_id":"the-king-years-historic-moments-in-the-civil-rights-movement-paperback","title":"The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Right out of the pages of our lives...Compelling portraits placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently.\" --The New York Times Book Review The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy.A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and continues to offer crucial lessons for today's world told in \"remarkable, meticulous detail\" (The Wall Street Journal). With this vital primer, Branch relates the dramatic story of how the Movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolution, and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience, sufficiently fulfilling Branch's dedication: \"For students of freedom and teachers of history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367082492127,"sku":"9781451662467","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gn4kkW-RYI9781451662467.webp?v=1789102331"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/taylor-branch.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}