Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

America in the King Years #1

Taylor Branch

1120 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to ...

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informative 100%
reflective 87%
inspiring 75%
tense 37%
challenging 25%
emotional 25%
sad 25%
adventurous 12%
dark 12%

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fast 16%

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