Taylor Branch | At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

A journalist and civil-rights activist, Taylor Branch is the author of America in the King Years, athree part biography of Martin Luther King. Considered a ''major accomplishment in biography as social history,'' the trilogy is composed of Parting the Waters (1954-1963), Pillar of Fire (1963-1965), and now, the final volume, At Canaan's Edge.Parting the Waters was hailed as a landmark achievement, winning the Pulitzer Prize for History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, t...