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Harper
April 2008
On Sale: March 31, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0061253200
EAN: 9780061253201
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Non-Fiction
On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of
one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth
century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at
such a young age that it is hard to believe that he has been
gone longer than the brief time he spent on this earth. He
spoke out not only on segregation and racism against African
Americans, but about many other issues of the day, from
police brutality and labor strikes to the Vietnam War. Given
the current state of the world, we would all benefit from
hearing Martin's voice, if only he were alive today. . . .
If anyone would have insight into
what Martin would say, it would be Clarence B. Jones, King's
personal lawyer and one of his closest principal advisers
and confidants. Jones—now seventy-seven, has chosen the
occasion of this somber anniversary to break his
silence—removing the mythic distance of forty years' time to
reveal the flesh-and-blood man he knew as his friend,
Martin. Jones ponders what the outspoken rights leader would
say about the serious issues that bedevil contemporary
America: Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq, reparations
for slavery, anti-Semitism, affirmative action, illegal
immigration, and the vacuum of African American leadership.
Delving deep into his memories of the man he worked closely
beside, and with help from the King Institute at Stanford
University and reams of formerly top-secret and now
declassified FBI files, Jones offers the guidance and
insight his friend and mentor would have provided for us in
these troubled times. Many Americans today know of
Martin Luther King only from video clips and history books.
As Jones so aptly reminds us, this legendary figure was also
a warm human being full of life—and more relevant now than
ever.
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