A review by annebennett1957
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch

2.0

I wanted to like this book. I never studied Civil Rights Movement in school so I have had to get my information from books I read and documentaries I've watched. I listened to Taylor Branch speak at a seminar last spring and bought the book to learn more. Unfortunately, The King Years is too truncated. Branch has picked excerpts from his three volume set on Civil Rights which weighs in at over 2000 pages. This book at 200 pages was just too short, yet the excerpts were too dense. The worst of both worlds.