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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, April 2007
eBook, 1088 pages
ISBN-10: 1416558683
ISBN-13: 9781416558682
Awards and Nominations
- Pulitzer Prize
Description
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.
This audio adaptation focuses primarily on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the key moments that defined his rise to the forefront of the civil rights movement. From Rosa Parks' monumental arrest in Montgomery to King's imprisonment in Birmingham and his triumphant march on Washington, Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness. He 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.
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David Levering Lewis The Philadelphia Inquirer Endlessly instructive and fascinating, thorough, stupendous. Now the source and standard in its field.
Robert C. Maynard The Washington Post Book World In remarkable, meticulous detail, Branch provides us with the most complex and unsentimental version of King and his times yet produced.
Richard John Neuhaus The Wall Street Journal A compelling story, masterfully told.
Jim Miller Newsweek A masterpiece ... remarkably revealing.... The past, miraculously, seems to spring back to life.
Garry Wills The New York Review of Books Already, in this chronicle, there is the material of Iliad after Iliad...There is no time in our history of which we can be more proud.
Robert Wilson USA Today Superb history.
The Week Magazine, September 23, 2011
...of The Forward recommends histories of the Civil Rights movement, the Russian Revolution, and the birth of Israel Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster, $22). The first volume of Branch's mammoth, brilliant biography of ...
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