Taylor Branch, Author . Simon & Schuster $35 (1039p) ISBN 978-0-684-85712-1
The engrossing final installment of Branch's three-volume biography of Martin Luther King Jr. maintains the high standards set in the previous volumes, the first of which won a Pulitzer Prize. Moving from the protest at Selma and the 1966...
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Taylor Branch, Author . Simon & Schuster $35 (707p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4333-6
Bill Clinton finds a genial Boswell for this absorbing inside account of his White House years. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Branch (Parting the Waters
) met regularly with Clinton as interlocutor for a taped “diary” of...
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Taylor Branch, Author Simon & Schuster $24.95 (1088p) ISBN 978-0-671-46097-6
Pacifist theologian Reinhold Niebuhr influenced Martin Luther King Jr. more deeply than did Gandhi, according to Branch, whose 880-page chronicle shows the civil rights leader taking Billy Graham's evangelist crusades as his model for organizing...
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Taylor Branch. Simon & Schuster, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-7897-0
Branch (The Clinton Tapes) selects crucial scenes from his Pulitzer Prize–winning three-volume history, America in the King Years, to capture the turning points of the civil rights era. Covering the period from 1954 to 1968, Branch begins with...
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Taylor Branch, Author, Taylor Branch, Read by , read by the author. Simon & Schuster Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7674-1
Branch, an acclaimed historian best known for his three-volume biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., met his old friend Bill Clinton for regular discussions in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office. Clinton kept the recordings,
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Taylor Branch, Author, Joe Morton, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-5143-4
Morton's rich voice offers a quiet, understated reading that heightens the intensity of this momentous period of American history, 1965-1968. Branch's 1,300-page book describes in great detail the interplay of personalities, politics and history....
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