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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-10068485712X

ISBN-139780684857121

eBay Product ID (ePID)12038706340

Product Key Features

Book TitleAt Canaan's Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-68

Number of Pages1056 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, General

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorTaylor Branch

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2 in

Item Weight46.4 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-040177

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal323.1196/073 009046

Table Of ContentCONTENTS Introduction I. SELMA: THE LAST REVOLUTION 1. Warning 2. Scouts 3. Dissent 4. Boxed In 5. Over the Bridge 6. The Call 7. Devil's Choice 8. The Ghost of Lincoln 9. Wallace and the Archbishop 10. And We Shall Overcome 11. Half-Inch Hailstones 12. Neutralize Their Anxieties 13. To Montgomery 14. The Stakes of History 15. Aftershocks 16. Bearings in a Whirlwind II. HIGH TIDE 17. Ten Feet Tall 18. Leaps of Faith 19. Gulps of Freedom 20. Fort Deposit 21. Watts and Hayneville 22. Fragile Alliance 23. Identity III. CROSSROADS IN FREEDOM AND WAR 24. Enemy Politics 25. Inside Out 26. Refugees 27. Break Points 28. Panther Ladies 29. Meredith March 30. Chicago 31. Valley Moments 32. Backlash IV. PASSION 33. Spy Visions 34. Riverside 35. Splinters 36. King's Choice 37. New Year Trials 38. Memphis 39. Requiem Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisAt Canaan's EdgeconcludesAmerica in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history.InAt Canaan's Edge, King and his movement stand at the zenith of America's defining story, one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. Branch opens with the authorities' violent suppression of a voting-rights march in Alabama on March 7, 1965. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King in negotiations with all three branches of the U.S. government.The marches from Selma coincide with the first landing of large U.S. combat units in South Vietnam. The escalation of the war severs the cooperation of King and President Lyndon Johnson after a collaboration that culminated in the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.After Selma, young pilgrims led by Stokely Carmichael take the movement into adjacent Lowndes County, Alabama, where not a single member of the black majority has tried to vote in the twentieth century. Freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party. Carmichael leaves in frustration to proclaim his famous black power doctrine, taking the local panther ballot symbol to become an icon of armed rebellion.Also after Selma, King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes. Integrated marches through Chicago expose hatreds and fears no less virulent than the Mississippi Klan's, but King's 1966 settlement with Mayor Richard Daley does not gain the kind of national response that generated victories from Birmingham and Selma. We watch King overrule his advisers to bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War. We watch King make an embattled decision to concentrate his next campaign on a positive compact to address poverty. We reach Memphis, the garbage workers' strike, and King's assassination.Parting the Watersprovided an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness, beginning with the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and ending with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. InPillar of Fire, theologians and college students braved the dangerous Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 as Malcolm X raised a militant new voice for racial separatism. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed segregation by race and mandated equal opportunity for women. From the pinnacle of winning the Nobel Peace Prize, King willed himself back to "the valley" of jail in his daunting Selma campaign.At Canaan's Edgeportrays King at the height of his moral power even as his worldly power is waning. It shows why his fidelity to freedom and nonviolence makes him a defining figure long beyond his brilliant life and violent end., "At Canaan's Edge" concludes "America in the King Years," a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history.In "At Canaan's Edge," King and his movement stand at the zenith of America's defining story, one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. Branch opens with the authorities' violent suppression of a voting-rights march in Alabama on March 7, 1965. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King in negotiations with all three branches of the U.S. government. The marches from Selma coincide with the first landing of large U.S. combat units in South Vietnam. The escalation of the war severs the cooperation of King and President Lyndon Johnson after a collaboration that culminated in the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.After Selma, young pilgrims led by Stokely Carmichael take the movement into adjacent Lowndes County, Alabama, where not a single member of the black majority has tried to vote in the twentieth century. Freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party. Carmichael leaves in frustration to proclaim his famous black power doctrine, taking the local panther ballot symbol to become an icon of armed rebellion.Also after Selma, King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes.Integrated marches through Chicago expose hatreds and fears no less virulent than the Mississippi Klan's, but King's 1966 settlement with Mayor Richard Daley does not gain the kind of national response that generated victories from Birmingham and Selma. We watch King overrule his advisers to bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War. We watch King make an embattled decision to concentrate his next campaign on a positive compact to address poverty. We reach Memphis, the garbage workers' strike, and King's assassination."Parting the Waters" provided an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness, beginning with the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and ending with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. In "Pillar of Fire," theologians and college students braved the dangerous Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 as Malcolm X raised a militant new voice for racial separatism. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed segregation by race and mandated equal opportunity for women. From the pinnacle of winning the Nobel Peace Prize, King willed himself back to "the valley" of jail in his daunting Selma campaign."At Canaan's Edge" portrays King at the height of his moral power even as his worldly power is waning. It shows why his fidelity to freedom and nonviolence makes him a defining figure long beyond his brilliant life and violent end., The final volume of Branch's magisterial history of the Civil Rights movement is a powerful rendering of Martin Luther King Jr.Us final years. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author suggests that King has earned a place next to Abraham Lincoln in American history. of photos., 'At Canaan's Edge' 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. This book brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and preserves the integrity of those who marched and died., The final volume of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch's magisterial history of the Civil Rights Movement, a powerful rendering of Martin Luther King's final years, which makes clear that he earned a place next to Abraham Lincoln in American history.

LC Classification NumberE185.615.B67 2006