Parting the Waters; America in the King Years; 1954-63
by Branch, Taylor
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- ISBN 10
- 0671460978
- ISBN 13
- 9780671460976
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New York: Simon and Schuster [0-671-46097-8] 1988. (Hardcover) 1064pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Photographs, notes, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped. "In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his America in the King Years, Taylor Branch begins an epic of America on the threshold of its most explosive era. Moving from the fiery political baptism of a young Southern minister named Martin Luther King to the FBI and the corridors of Camlot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against political realities and the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, Parting the Waters is a vivid tapestry of our nation". Book about Martin Luther King. Time Period 1950's & 1960's. Vol. 1 America in the King Years. (History--United States, Civil Rights Movement, History--United States, Political Activism).
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- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
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- Title
- Parting the Waters; America in the King Years; 1954-63
- Author
- Branch, Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0671460978
- ISBN 13
- 9780671460976
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1988
- Keywords
- History--United States, Civil Rights Movement, History--United States, Political Activism
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN HISTORY;
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