At Canaan&39s Edge America in the King Years, 1965-68 [Paperback]

AtCanaan'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. 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 Edgeis a sweeping history of protest and politics, bursting with outsize figures.

--Chicago Tribune