Product Details
Simon & Schuster, April 2007
eBook, 1088 pages
ISBN-10: 1416558683
ISBN-13: 9781416558682
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Text Excerpt 1Awards 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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"Right out of the pages of our lives....Compelling portraits, placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently."
-- Eleanor Holmes Norton, The New York Times Book Review
Robert C. MaynardThe 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 NeuhausThe Wall Street JournalA compelling story, masterfully told.
Jim MillerNewsweekA masterpiece ... remarkably revealing.... The past, miraculously, seems to spring back to life.
Garry Wills The New York Review of BooksAlready, 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 WilsonUSA TodaySuperb history.
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