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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.1196073
Graphics Memory Size: Bargain Price
Maximum Color Depth: Simon & Schuster
Metal Type: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 768
Total External Bays Free: January 20, 1999
Total Firewire Ports: Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
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. 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. Instead it is a work of history, with King at its focal point. The tumultuous years that Branch covers saw the assassination of President John F. 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.
Product Description:
Taylor Branch continues his definitive history epic began in "Parting the Waters". From the struggle through the first tumultuous year of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, which saw not only the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 but also growing divisions within the Movement and the deepening shadow of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. National ads including "New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune". 12-city author tour. Simultaneous hardcover release from Simon & Schuster. 4 cassettes.
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The book arrived as promised. It is in the condition promised by the vendor. I am most pleased with both the service and the product.
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I received this item on time ans in excellent condition. For those who are interested in the history of this period, I recommend it.
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This is an intense book filled with many facts. Often far too many facts to process well and comprehend the story. That may seem a bit much but the purpose of Branch's book seems to be to write down as much as possible. Still, the events are exciting and not to be missed. The time period begins with an assassination of a president and ends with the assassination of a......what was Malcolm X anyway? A very interesting yet troubling man? I have yet to figure out and may never. I do know he ... Read More
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With 30 other reviews for this book (so far), it would seem that everything that needs to be said about this book has been said already. And I would second the praise for the book. It is vital reading for any student of American history. It is well written; indeed, I felt the writing style was more literary and more suspenseful than PTW. The allocation of styles is sensible; the straightforward, conservative narrative style of PTW is helpful for readers new to the subject, while POF follows with ... Read More
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Volume one of Branch's biography of King, though interesting most of the time, suffers from Branch's sometime tortuous syntax and lack of focus, it seems. _Parting the Waters_, overall, was excellent, but I only wish that it flowed always when it only flowed some of the time.
Beginning now to read _Pillar of Fire_, volume two of the trilogy, I am again struck with Branch's convoluted and twised syntax, which smooths itself out at some point only to become twisted once more. Also, volume ... Read More
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