Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 Book

Pillar of Fire is the second volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial three-volume history of America during the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Branch's thesis, as he explains in the introduction, is that "King's life is the best and most important metaphor for American history in the watershed postwar years." But this is not just a biography. Instead it is a work of history, with King at its focal point. The tumultuous years that Branch covers saw the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the beginnings of American disillusionment with the war in Vietnam, and, of course, the civil rights movement that King led, a movement that transformed America as the nation finally tried to live up to the ideals on which it was founded.Read More

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  • 0684808196
  • 9780684808192
  • Taylor Branch
  • 1 June 1998
  • Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 768
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