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    <body><![CDATA[More a history of the times than a traditional biography, <em>Parting the Waters</em> is a fascinating telling of the American civil rights movement up to the time of JFK's assassination. There is a huge amount of material in just this first of three volumes, but the pace and flowing concision of Branch's wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18619897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parting the Waters defines what a popular history should be: detailed, well-researched, and as readable as a novel.  While the life of MLK is the fulcrum of the work, Branch delves deeply into into areas as diverse as the history of Dexter Avenue Baptist and power struggle between Bobby Kennedy and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6153301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book took me weeks to read through and at times I wasn't too happy about its (or my) slurring pace but when its all said and done - this book is great. The book is an almost day to day recounting of the uprising of the civil rights movement and begins with King as a young man. Branch captures Ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34533762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Superb but long, even for me, who likes a lot of backstory and detail.  The best section is on the creation of the &quot;Letter from Birmingham Jail.&quot;  After the last of this trilofy was published I read review that stated that Branch either didn't get the full story on all of the events covere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3357925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parting the Waters is about the civil rights movement of mid-20th century America. Branch indicates in his title that these late-1950, early 1960's years were properly &quot;The King Years.&quot; Martin Luther King Jr. came of age and had his career path steered by the events that were taking place ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53848837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of my all time favorite people.  I had read his autobiography but I really prefer this on over his.  This book is part one of a three part series on the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on MLK's life.  Taylor Branch builds a great sense of the narrative of the movement....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/749589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't truthfully say I've &quot;read&quot; this, because I didn't realize exactly how abridged the audiobook was. How or why you would abridge an incredibly well-written, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1000-page book into six CDs, I don't know (especially considering a lot of the tripe that gets the ua tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43356990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! Finally finished this book. First part of a trilogy.  Have already read Part 3 last summer.  This book is a very extensive history of the early Martin Luther King, Jr. years and his struggles getting the Civil Rights Movement with non violence as the method of achieving the goal of stopping seg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51980567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned about the role of &quot;the Preacher&quot; in the Afro-American church. This was very interesting to me. I learned about the preachers who preceded Martin Luther King, Jr'; namely Rev Vernon John and Martin Luther King Sr. ........ very interesting. <br/>I was disappointed because I was v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45189246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Standing in front of the smoking ruins of the bombed dwelling lately occupied by your wife and newborn daughter before a seething mob crying out to avenge you is a powerful test of a man's character.  On January 30, 1956, Martin Luther King's house was bombed during the Montgomery Bus Boycott; his w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26402678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I've ever read on recent history.  It tells in incredible detail the story of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr and, perhaps most importantly, the stories of hundreds of people who played an indispensable role in one of the great social upheavals of mode...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15757730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the definitive book on the Civil Rights movement.  An incredible read--meticulously researched.  Branch is white but probably 10 years ago I saw him on an MLK Day panel on BET.  He was surrounded by black leaders whose names probably any informed person knows.  What does that tell you about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80186900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only about 150 pages in, but it's a page turner that digs its nails in a bit deeper with every sentence.  The passage describing MLK's first &quot;political&quot; speech at the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is incredibly vibrant and moving.  It really reads like the birth of something big ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9562673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderfully vivid and colofully written description of all the characters who played such important roles in the move to fight segregation in the South and achieve meaningful civil rights protection.  It provides amazing insights on private citizens and governmental characters that casts i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58471593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this was my first 400+ page book. A great look into the life of MLK JR and the characters and stories involved in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. I would say this book inspired me to read more about the real heroes of the movement...the women who did all the work and got litt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77109914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i absolutely loved these books.  this is the 1st in a trilogy of America from 1955-1968, mostly focussed on the civil rights movement using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the centerpiece. Filled with an amazing amount of detail, you will learn the dramatic, heartbreaking, triumphant story of an impor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/688165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing Book! Sometimes I felt as though I was living in that time, especially in regards to the freedom ride times. The first few chapters are a little hard to get through but stick with it ,if I would have quit reading I would have missed one of the greatest books I've read.]]></body>
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