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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Selections from the America in the King years trilogy with new introductions by the author"--Jacket.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>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--<i>Parting the Waters</i>; <i>Pillar of Fire</i>; and <i>At Canaan</i>'<i>s Edge</i>.</b> <p/>Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. 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. This vital primer amply fulfills Branch's dedication: "For students of freedom and teachers of history."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In remarkable, meticulous detail, Branch provides us with the most complex and unsentimental version of King and his times yet produced."<b> </b>-- "The Wall Street Journal"<br><br>"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."<b> </b>-- "The New York Times"<br><br>"There will be the inevitable comparisons to Carl Sandburg's <i>Abraham Lincoln</i> and Shelby Foote's <i>The Civil War</i>, two other masterworks that use the grand sweep of history to lay barethe nation's soul."-- "Chicago Tribune"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of <i>Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63</i>; <i>Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65</i>; <i>At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968</i>; and <i>The Clinton Tapes</i>. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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