Jumat, 09 Juni 2017

American History Book Reviews: The King Years and Martin’s Dream

The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch, Simon & Schuster Martin’s Dream by Clayborne Carson, Palgrave Macmillan Taylor Branch’s deft abridgement of his epic three-volume America in the King Years is the ideal entry into those epochal days. The sheer monumentality of his award-winning trilogy of Martin Luther King …

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