Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
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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.