Bibliograph

Parting the waters, America in the King years, 1954-63, Taylor Branch

Type

Label

Parting the waters, America in the King years, 1954-63, Taylor Branch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1006-1009) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Parting the waters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

65200293

Responsibility statement

Taylor Branch

Sub title

America in the King years, 1954-63

Summary

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. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator