I've read over a hundred books by and about King for my own writing, teaching, and social justice work. While there is a place for monumental works like Taylor Branch's remarkably readable 3-volume treatment, the most urgent need is for a brief volume to help all those people for whom King is little more than "I had a dream..." Of books that fill this need, there are a number of good ones. This is the great one. It's written by someone who truly understands, has lived, and taught nonviolence (all over the world, as it happens). It has great stories, rewarding analysis, fine choices in quotes from King, and a helpful chronology. Deats has written a similar volume on Gandhi, equally needed, equally superb.
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