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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch

writer, 1989 Pulitzer Prize
Taylor Branch is best known for his prizewinning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. The first volume, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction in 1988.  [more]
Image of The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
Author: Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 720 pages
Image of At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Author: Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 1056 pages
Image of Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65
Author: Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 768 pages
Image of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Author: Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster (1988)
Binding: Hardcover, 1088 pages