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9780671687427 Browse Inside Parting the Waters

Parting the Waters

By Taylor Branch
In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.
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Pillar of Fire

By Taylor Branch
In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith, picking up where the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters left off. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy...
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At Canaan's Edge

By Taylor Branch
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...
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The African-American Century

By Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West
ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL PROFILES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYWithout Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood Marshall, we would be deprived of political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy....
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Willie Mays

By James S. Hirsch
Authorized by Willie Mays, the definitive biography of one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
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The Kitchen House

By: Kathleen Grissom
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The Blue Orchard

By: Jackson Taylor
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The Memory Quilt

By: T.D. Jakes
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Aaliyah

By: Victoria Christopher Murray
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The Ideal Wife

By: Jacquelin Thomas
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Victoria Rowell

Soap Love

by Victoria Rowell - January 20, 2010
Hi everyone, Hope you had a very Happy New Year's! I was just informed that...
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Victoria Rowell

Daytime Confidential Poll

by Victoria Rowell - December 14, 2009
Wow, Daytime Confidential is holding a vote for Lead Soap Actress of the Decade and...
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Farai Chideya

Publicity!

by Farai Chideya - April 23, 2009
Man, I am workin' hard with Christine (Saunders of the publicity department) to figure...
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John F. Baker Jr.

Historic election of Barack Obama

by John F. Baker Jr. - January 12, 2009
Ever since the victory of Barack Obama, people ask me what the Washingtons of...
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Todd Strasser

Influences

by Todd Strasser - December 22, 2008
Young people often ask who inspired you to become a writer, or influenced you early...
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Ex-POW Shares Story
Military.com, February 6, 2010
About Shoshana Johnson
...Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON - Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a...
Grabbers / A selection of first...
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About Staceyann Chin
...car was not designed for having sex. "The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir" (now in paperback), by...
Masters of American literature
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About Fantasia
...in America (1992) runs, across its two parts, for around six hours and, as its subtitle ('A Gay...
Obit: Screenwriter Larry Gelbart
The Wrap, February 5, 2010
About Joan Davis
...over a year. He wrote for the Army's 'Command Performance' but still continued to write bits for Joan...
The Godfather of Teenage Angst
Sag Harbor Express, February 5, 2010
About Sharon Draper
...calls Salinger the “godfather of teenage angst.” Salinger, added Farrell, influenced dozens of...
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