THE KING YEARS

With this brief volume, which brings to life the pivotal scenes, he relates the dramatic story of how the Movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolution, and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience.

Taylor BranCh‘s America in the King Vears trilogy—Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan‘s Edge endures as a masterpiece of storytellin~ on race, violence and democracy. The entire trilogy was over 1000 pages long, however. Now the essential moments from those three volumes are introduced and set in historical context in this short and concise history of the Clvii Rights Movement, easily accessible tor readers around the globe.

Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63; PilIar ofFire: 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.