Product Details
Simon & Schuster, January 2007
Trade Paperback, 1056 pages
ISBN-10: 0684857138
ISBN-13: 9780684857138
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history.
"The crowning achievement of Branch's King trilogy is to show anew the moral power of [nonviolent] philosophy."
"This is so far the best look at [the Sixties]. It is an essential tool for understanding what happened to and in America across that dizzying span of years."
"A magnificent account of witness and sacrifice."
"A thrilling book, marvelous in both its breadth and its detail. There is drama in every paragraph."
"Luminous...magisterial...At Canaan's Edge is a sweeping history of protest and politics, bursting with outsize figures."