The promise and the dream

Title The promise and the dream
Names Margolick, David.
Book Number DB129158
Title Status Active
Narrator Arlt, Lewis.
Language English
Annotation "No two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of the complex and ever-evolving relationship between these two American icons. Assassinated only sixty-two days apart in 1968, King and Kennedy changed the United States forever, and their deaths profoundly altered the country's trajectory. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their unique bond and the complicated mix of mutual assistance, impatience, wariness, awkwardness, antagonism, and admiration that existed between the two, documented with original interviews, oral histories, FBI files, and previously untapped contemporaneous accounts. At a turning point in social history, MLK and RFK embarked on distinct but converging paths toward lasting change. Even when they weren't interacting directly, they monitored and learned from one another. Their joint story, a story each man took some pains to hide and which began to come into focus only with their murders, is not just gripping history but a window into contemporary America and the challenges we continue to face."-- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Medium Digital Books
Local Subject Unrated - UNRAT
Biography - BIO
Informational works
Social sciences - 300
United States - History - 973
History - North America - 970
Biography, Autobiography, Genealogy - 920
LC Subject African American civil rights workers - Biography
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century
United States - Politics and government - 1963-1969
Nonfiction
Call Number 973.923 ANF
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
Original Publication Reissue of: United States : Dreamscape Media, 2019. 9781666578874
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