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Also by Taylor Branch:

The King Years, January 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Clinton Tapes, September 2009
Hardcover
At Canaan's Edge, April 2008
Hardcover
At Canaan's Edge, January 2006
Hardcover
Pillar of Fire, January 1999
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Parting the Waters, November 1989
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PARTING THE WATERS
By: Taylor Branch

A tour de force of research and synthesis, richer than any extant King biography or civil rights history, this will be the measure of all books to come. - Library Journal

America in the King Years: 1954-1963
Simon and Schuster
November 1989
Featuring: Martin Luther King,Jr.
1088 pages
ISBN: 0671687425
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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.

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