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These concluding years of the freedom era show King at the height of his powers even as his worldly prestige falls under withering attack. We witness non-violent advances for democracy in the face of growing factionalism and fear. We meet heroines and martyrs; enter a world battered by private doubts， public dreams， contagious inspiration， official harassment， and poisonous discord over the Vietnam War. The narrative begins with violence before the pivotal 1965 Selma march for the right to vote， a dangerous time. From landmark victory there， King’s movement comes under threat from competing forces. Branch chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama， King’s tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson， his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power， and persecution by Hoover’s FBI. Like ?Parting the Waters? and ?Pillar of Fire?， ?At Canaan’s Edge? is a magnificent achievement that brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and preserves the integrity of those who marched and died.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. 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 Meredith March through King’s expanding political concern for the poor to his 1968 assassination in Memphis， Tenn.， Branch gives us not only the civil rights leader’s life but also the rapidly changing pulse of American culture and politics. The America we find in this last chapter of King’s life is on fire—the Republican Party has begun to court white Southern voters; the Civil Rights movement itself has fractured; King sees bold challenges to his teaching of nonviolence in the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. King himself has evolved， spreading his interests beyond civil rights to become a more outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and of poverty. A turning point in King’s legacy， says Branch， was his housing actions in Chicago in the summer of 1966. This work ?nationalized race，? showing that it wasn’t just a Southern problem， and ensured that King would go down in history as much more than a regional leader. As a literary work， Branch’s biography is masterful. About midway through， the author begins to foreshadow King’s death—by， for example， quoting his 1965 statement to a filmmaker: ?I would willingly give my life for that which I think is right.? If Branch indulges in predictable throat clearing about the lessons from King’s life that endure in America today—well， that is to be expected. This magisterial book is a fitting tribute to a magisterial man. 24 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. 150，000 first printing; first serial to Time magazine; 15-city author tour. (Feb. 1)
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