![]() ![]() Taylor Branch's America in the King Years series is both a biography of Martin Luther King and a history of his age. Kennedy, the beginnings of American disillusionment with the war in Vietnam, and, of course, the civil rights movement that King led, a movement that transformed America as the nation finally tried to live up to the ideals on which it was founded. The tumultuous years that Branch covers saw the assassination of President John F. Instead it is a work of history, with King at its focal point. Branch's thesis, as he explains in the introduction, is that "King's life is the best and most important metaphor for American history in the watershed postwar years," but this is not just a biography. Pillar of Fire is the second volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial three-volume history of America during the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. ![]()
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