Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Paperback

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Paperback

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Paperback

by Taylor Branch
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Book Overview

by Taylor Branch (Author)

In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...masterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness.

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.

Moving 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.

Taylor 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.

Epic in scope and impact, Branch's chronicle definitively captures one of the nation's most crucial passages.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 1088
Dimensions: 2.07 x 9.22 x 6.14 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 15, 1989
Award: National Book Awards (1989)
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award (1988)
Award: Pulitzer Prize (1989)
ISBN9780671687427
Author Taylor Branch
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreNews & politics, History, and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 1989
LanguageENG- English
Pages1088
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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