num_pages: 1064
description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning first installment of the outstanding civil rights-era series comes to audio! Epic in scope and impact, this audiobook is hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands of justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is the vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War. 4 cassettes. .
language: English
title: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
titlecomplete: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
characters: Martin Luther King Jr.
genres: American, Politics, Historical, Biography, Social Justice, Race, American History, African American, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 9589
series: America in the King Years
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc