false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169881633m/42547.jpg 42547 7 Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. In an early student essay, King prophetically penned: "We cannot have an enlightened democracy with one great group living in ignorance.... We cannot have a nation orderly and sound with one group so ground down and thwarted that it is almost forced into unsocial attitudes and crime." Such statements, made throughout King's career, are skillfully woven together into a coherent narrative of the quest for social justice. The autobiography delves, for example, into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In one of his last speeches, King reminded his audience that "in the final analysis, God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives." Carson's skillful editing has created an original argument in King's favor that draws directly from the source, illuminating the circumstances of King's life without deifying his person. <I>--Eugene Holley Jr.</I> 42030 1998 The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. total:345|5:165|4:124|3:48|2:6|1:2| 345 1479 614 55 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 21:45:41 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 22:00:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 13 18:48:01 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 17:32:15 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 18:48:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 30 17:16:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 13:51:36 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 17:16:21 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 11 16:17:32 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 16:22:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 20:52:06 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 20:56:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 12:49:08 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 21:46:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 09 18:34:15 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 18:34:55 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 29 18:18:55 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 24 04:57:01 -0800 2009 However, because most of this book is taken from journal entries, you only get a 1 sided picture of MLK. It helps...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 21 13:16:25 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 13:17:05 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 14 19:29:08 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 19:29:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 16:23:45 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 16:24:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 09:17:28 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 09:18:03 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:18:24 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:19:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 10:10:51 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 16 11:57:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 13:39:25 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 08:11:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 21:56:32 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 21:56:59 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Feb 09 07:07:24 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 10:27:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 12:25:08 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:25:32 -0800 2009 5 0 true false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 21:37:06 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 15:40:38 -0700 2009
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