Taylor Branch
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America in the King years volume 1
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English
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Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.
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America in the King years volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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A final installment of the author's history of the civil rights movement chronicles Martin Luther King's final years, covering such topics as the 1965 Selma march for the right to vote and King's turbulent alliance with Lyndon Johnson.
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America in the King years volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
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In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965 - Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait...
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Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton,...
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