Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.
Epic in scope and impact, Branch\'s chronicle definitively captures one of the nation\'s most crucial passages..
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.
Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
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.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. (Simon & Schuster) In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.\'s, rise to greatness and illuminates the courage, the deals, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations
