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The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
Palgrave Macmillan
January 2011
On Sale: January 4, 2011
224 pages ISBN: 0230103685 EAN: 9780230103689 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
“I have a dream.” When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified,
as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African
Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established
himself as one of the greatest orators of all time.
Behind the Dream is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes
account of the weeks leading up to the great event, as told
by Clarence Jones, co-writer of the speech and close
confidant to King. Jones was there, on the road,
collaborating with the great minds of the time, and
hammering out the ideas and the speech that would shape the
civil rights movement and inspire Americans for years to come.
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