The preacher King
Subtitle: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America
By: Richard Lischer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Preaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Sermons, American -- African American authors
Description: Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily life and the laws of the nation.

As no other preacher in living memory and no politician since Lincoln, he transposed the themes of love, suffering, deliverance, and justice from the sacred shelter of the pulpit into the arena of public policy. He was the last great religious reformer in America. How the man who always saw himself as "fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher" crafted his strategic vision and moved a nation to renewal is the subject of this remarkable new book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-338) and index.