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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

Autor Taylor Branch
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iun 1999
In the second volume of the three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with PARTING THE WATERS, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. Beginning where PARTING THE WATERS left off with the death of JFK, PILLAR OF FIRE recounts the rise of the movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience. PILLAR OF FIRE covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963-1965, including Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Vietnam and Selma. Taylor provides a frank portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. revealing him to be haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the non-violent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780684848099
ISBN-10: 0684848090
Pagini: 768
Ilustrații: 24 pp b-w photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 38 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Ediția:Touchstone.
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster

Notă biografică

Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Cuprins

Contents
Preface to Pillar of Fire

PART ONE
BIRMIGHAM TIDES
1 Islam in Los Angeles
2 Prophets in Chicago
3 LBJ in St. Augustine
4 Gamblers in Law
5 To Vote in Mississippi: Advance by Retreat
6 Tremors: L.A. to Selma
7 Marx in the White House
8 Summer Freeze
9 Cavalry: Lowenstein and the Church
10 Mirrors in Black and White
11 Against All Enemies
12 Frontiers on Edge: The Last Month

PART TWO
NEW WORLDS PASSING
13 Grief
14 High Councils
15 Hattiesburg Freedom Day
16 Ambush
17 Spreading Poisons
18 The Creation of Muhammad Ali
19 Shaky Pulpits
20 Mary Peabody Meets the Klan
21 Wrestling with Legends
22 Filibusters
23 Pilgrims and Empty Pitchers
24 Brushfires

PART THREE
FREEDOM SUMMER
25 Jail Marches
26 Bogue Chitto Swamp
27 Beachheads
28 Testing Freedom
29 The Cow Palace Revolt
30 King in Mississippi
31 Riot Politics
32 Crime, War, and Freedom School
33 White House Etiquette
34 A Dog in the Manger: The Atlantic City Compromise
35 "We see the giants..."
36 Movements Unbound

PART FOUR
"LORD, MAKE ME PURE -- BUT NOT YET"
37 Landslide
38 Nobel Prize
39 To the Valley: The Downward King
40 Saigon, Audubon, and Selma
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Source Notes
Notes
Major Works Cited in Notes
Index

Recenzii

Richard Bernstein The New York Times By the time you have finished [Pillar of Fire], you feel almost as if you have relieved the era, not just read about it.
James Goodman The Boston Globe This is jet-propelled history.
Jeff Shesol The Washington Post Politics and personalities, ambition and imagination, triumph and tragedy.
David M. Shribman The Wall Street Journal One part biography, one part history, one part elegy...a vast panorama...powerful.
Jon Meacham Newsweek Pillar of Fire is a magisterial history of one of the most tumultuous periods in postwar America. Branch's storytelling is strong, his storytelling colorful. Reading Branch, it is easier to see why even the most remarkable revolutions are never complete.
Alan Wolfe The New York Times Book Review As he did in Parting the Waters, Branch brings to these events both a passion for their detail and a recognition of their larger historical significance.
Scott Ellsworth The Oregonian Magnificent...the birth of a masterwork akin to Carl Sandburg's Lincoln or Shelby Foote's Civil War.
Ray Jenkins The Baltimore Sun Branch has an uncanny ability to penetrate the most obscure nooks and crannies of the past to provide a whole new perpective on the Sixties...
Bill Maxwell St. Petersburg Times Pillar of Fire, a history of symbiosis and epiphany, records King's vision and the disparate moral currents that forced America to redefine itslef in light of its failures to live up to its own principles of freedom.
Trevor Coleman Detroit Free Press The strength of Pillar of Fire lies in Branch's unsurpassed ability to bring the reader into the moment, enabling one to almost feel the tension of the times.

Descriere

PILLAR OF FIRE, the second volume of Taylor Branch's acclaimed history of the Civil Rights Movement, is a monumental chronicle of the movement which changed America.