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Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award, this brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America's history.
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"Moving, scholarly, lucid, invaluable. ... "The" book on Martin Luther King."--WILLIAM MANCHESTER, author of "The Last Lion"
"Oates has written the most comprehensive account of King's life yet published. ... Displays a remarkable understanding of King's individual role in the civil rights movement. ... Helps us appreciate how sorely King is missed."--ERIC FONER, New York Times Book Review
"A monumental work. ... A stirring portrait."--Publishers Weekly
"Martin Luther King is captured in all his power, glory, and humility."--Chicago Tribune
"Clearly the best biography we have. ... Stirring. ... Evokes King and his epic struggle with you-are-there vividness."--Newsday
A Notable Book of the Year--New York Times Book Review
"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr."--HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, Philadelphia Inquirer
The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. --HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, Philadelphia Inquirer"
Moving, scholarly, lucid, invaluable. ... "The" book on Martin Luther King. --WILLIAM MANCHESTER, author of "The Last Lion""
Oates has written the most comprehensive account of King s life yet published. ... Displays a remarkable understanding of King s individual role in the civil rights movement. ... Helps us appreciate how sorely King is missed. --ERIC FONER, New York Times Book Review"
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"Oates has written the most comprehensive account of King's life yet published. ... Displays a remarkable understanding of King's individual role in the civil rights movement. ... Helps us appreciate how sorely King is missed."--ERIC FONER, New York Times Book Review
"A monumental work. ... A stirring portrait."--Publishers Weekly
"Martin Luther King is captured in all his power, glory, and humility."--Chicago Tribune
"Clearly the best biography we have. ... Stirring. ... Evokes King and his epic struggle with you-are-there vividness."--Newsday
A Notable Book of the Year--New York Times Book Review
"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr."--HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, Philadelphia Inquirer
The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. --HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, Philadelphia Inquirer"
Moving, scholarly, lucid, invaluable. ... "The" book on Martin Luther King. --WILLIAM MANCHESTER, author of "The Last Lion""
Oates has written the most comprehensive account of King s life yet published. ... Displays a remarkable understanding of King s individual role in the civil rights movement. ... Helps us appreciate how sorely King is missed. --ERIC FONER, New York Times Book Review"
Stephen B. Oates is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies.
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