Parting the Waters America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Name: Parting the Waters America in the King Years, 1954-1963
Price: 3.41 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780671687427

ISBN-10: 0671687425

ISBN-13: 9780671687427

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: Taylor Branch

List price: $24.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $20.23

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.41

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement,Parting the Watersis destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War. Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 11/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1088
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English



Preface



Forerunner: Vernon Johns



Rockefeller and Ebenezer



Niebuhr and the Pool Tables



First Trombone



The Montgomery Bus Boycott



A Taste of the World



The Quickening



Shades of Politics



A Pawn of History



The Kennedy Transition



Baptism on Wheels



The Summer of Freedom Rides



Moses in McComb, King in Kansas City



Almost Christmas in Albany



Hoover's Triangle and King's Machine



The Fireman's Last Reprieve



The Fall of Ole Miss



To Birmingham



Greenwood and Birmingham Jail



The Children's Miracle



Firestorm



The March on Washington



Crossing Over: Nightmares and Dreams


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations used in Source Notes


Notes


Major Works Cited in Notes


Index