num_pages: 1056
description: A final installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's history of the civil rights movement chronicles Martin Luther King's final years, covering such topics as the 1965 Selma march for the right to vote, King's turbulent alliance with Lyndon Johnson, and his protests against the Vietnam war. 150,000 first printing.
language: English
title: At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
titlecomplete: At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
characters: Deke DeLoach, Bayard Rustin, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Bob Moses, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Harry Belafonte, Richard J. Daley, Bill Moyers, Stanley Levison, Hubert Humphrey, LeRoy Collins, Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, John F. Kennedy, James Bevel, Albert Raby, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Richmond Flowers Sr., James Forman, Nicholas Katzenbach, Diane Nash, Robert F. "Bobby"  Kennedy, John Doar, Jesse Jackson, Arthur Goldberg, Jonathan Daniels, Bernard Lafayette, Julian Bond, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Young, McGeorge Bundy, James Reeb, Harry H. Wachtel, Ralph Abernathy, Lady Bird Johnson, Hosea Williams, John Hulett, Stokely Carmichael, Harry McPherson, John Robert Lewis, George Wallace
genres: African American, United States, Race, Nonfiction, History, Audiobook, American History, American, Politics, Biography
ratings_count: 1794
series: America in the King Years
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Simon & Schuster