Parting the Waters by Branch

Parting the Waters by Branch

In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...masterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness.

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.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes are among Taylor Branch's best-selling books. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.

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ISBN 13	9780671687427
ISBN 10	0671687425
Title	Parting the Waters
Author	Branch
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	1989-11-15
Number of pages	1088
Prizes	Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1988, Winner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 1989, Short-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1989
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