At canaan's edge America in the King Years, 1965-68
FROM THE AUTHOR OF PARTING THE WATERS AND PILLAR OF FIREAt Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster Audio,
2006.
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| Summary: | FROM THE AUTHOR OF PARTING THE WATERS AND PILLAR OF FIREAt Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history. King and his movement stand at the zenith of America's defining story, one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. Branch opens with the authorities' violent suppression of a voting-rights march in Alabama on March 7, 1965. From there we follow King as he takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes exposing hatreds and fears no less virulent than the Mississippi Klan's. We watch King bring all his eloquence into dissent from the... |
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| Item Description: | Abridged. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 sound file) |
| Playing Time: | 09:56:37 |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 142930 KB) or OverDrive Media Console (file size: 279741 KB). |
| ISBN: | 9780743591935 |
