num_pages: 1039
description: At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history.
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: James Reeb, Stanley Levison, Viola Liuzzo, Hosea Williams, McGeorge Bundy, Harry Belafonte, Bill Moyers, Richmond Flowers Sr., Harry H. Wachtel, Richard J. Daley, Albert Raby, Andrew Young, Jonathan Daniels, John Robert Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, Jesse Jackson, Robert McNamara, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Hubert Humphrey, Nicholas Katzenbach, Stokely Carmichael, J. Edgar Hoover, Lady Bird Johnson, Julian Bond, George Wallace, Harry McPherson, John Hulett, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. "Bobby"  Kennedy, Bayard Rustin, Bob Moses, John F. Kennedy, Deke DeLoach, Diane Nash, James Forman, James Bevel, Arthur Goldberg, LeRoy Collins, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean Rusk, John Doar
genres: Audiobook, American, Politics, Biography, United States, Race, American History, African American, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1793
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