At Canaan's Edge

America in the King Years, 1965-68

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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.

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Simon & Schuster |
1056 pages |
ISBN 9780684857138 |
January 2007

$20.00 List Price

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“ The crowning achievement of Branch's King trilogy is to show anew the moral power of [nonviolent] philosophy. ”

– The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“ This is so far the best look at [the Sixties]. It is an essential tool for understanding what happened to and in America across that dizzying span of years. ”

– Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books

“ A magnificent account of witness and sacrifice. ”

– John Leonard, Harper's Magazine

“ A thrilling book, marvelous in both its breadth and its detail. There is drama in every paragraph. ”

– Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

“ Luminous...magisterial...At Canaan's Edge is a sweeping history of protest and politics, bursting with outsize figures. ”

– Chicago Tribune

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