A review by mattrohn
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

informative medium-paced

5.0

This is a great massive history-through-biography-as-lens - only serious criticism is that it seems to waver in how much it cares about King individually. Either "a lot" or "only as a framing mechanism" are reasonable but the book constantly wavers back and forth between the two