Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
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Author: Taylor BranchEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-11-15
ISBN: 0671687425
Number of pages: 1088
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Summary: 5 Stars
I began this book not especially interested in the history of the civil rights movement. I, over the past few years, have become something of a Cold War history buff, researching important events on both sides of the Iron Curtain and trying to piece them together into a comprehensive narrative. Since Parting the Waters covers an important timespan of American Cold War history, I figured, what the hell, I'll get some dirt and a greater understanding of a specific American struggle. Once I began, there was no stopping. At over 900 pages, it is certainly a daunting undertaking, but the past comes alive in a thouroughly engrossing and utterly fascinating epic of the horrors and triumphs of the early years of the struggle for freedom. From Alabama courtrooms where a black man is sentenced to death for stealing $1.98 from a white man to the march on Washington, every major event (at least as far as I know as I was neither born during this time nor have I ever been further south than South Carolina--excepting Miami, but how southern is Miami?) that shook the world to a greater understanding and a more fully balanced conscience. I must applaud the author for making this wonderful book so tremendously engaging and exciting. It is an accomplished, well-researched, absolutely deserving masterpiece of histoical writing that pulls everything into the appropriate context, anti-Communist fervor and all.--Lance Polin
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