The Promise and the Dream (ePub)
The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A fascinating, elegiac account" of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era's most important leaders-from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit (Chicago Tribune).
With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy...
With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy...
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"A fascinating, elegiac account" of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era's most important leaders-from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit (Chicago Tribune).
With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their unique bond, both in life and in their tragic assassinations, just sixty-two days apart in 1968. Through original interviews, oral histories, FBI files, and previously untapped contemporaneous accounts, Margolick offers a revealing portrait of these two men and the mutual assistance, awkwardness, antagonism, and admiration that existed between them.
MLK and RFK cut 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 pains to hide during their lives, is not just gripping history but a window into the challenges we continue to face in America.
Complemented by award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley's foreword and more than eighty revealing photos by the foremost photojournalists of the period, The Promise and the Dream offers a compelling look at one of the most consequential but misunderstood relationships in our nation's history.
With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their unique bond, both in life and in their tragic assassinations, just sixty-two days apart in 1968. Through original interviews, oral histories, FBI files, and previously untapped contemporaneous accounts, Margolick offers a revealing portrait of these two men and the mutual assistance, awkwardness, antagonism, and admiration that existed between them.
MLK and RFK cut 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 pains to hide during their lives, is not just gripping history but a window into the challenges we continue to face in America.
Complemented by award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley's foreword and more than eighty revealing photos by the foremost photojournalists of the period, The Promise and the Dream offers a compelling look at one of the most consequential but misunderstood relationships in our nation's history.
Autoren-Porträt von David Margolick
David Margolick is a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair. As a renowned reporter, he has held positions at Newsweek and Portfolio.com. For fifteen years he was the legal affairs reporter at the New York Times, where he covered the trials of O.J. Simpson, Lorena Bobbitt, and William Kennedy Smith. His work has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. He remains a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and his work has appeared in Tablet and The Forward. His previous books include Dreadful, Beyond Glory, and Strange Fruit. He lives in New York City.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Margolick
- 2019, 399 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: RosettaBooks
- ISBN-10: 1948122251
- ISBN-13: 9781948122252
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2019
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“An engaging work of popular history that revisits the interconnected lives of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.” —The New York Times Book Review“I knew Martin Luther King like a brother, and David Margolick captures the cautious mutual admiration that existed between him and Robert Kennedy. Margolick has developed a portrait of two leaders cut down before the prime of life, and suggests what they might have done, separately or together, had they each lived twenty years longer.” —Andrew Young, former ambassador to the United Nations
“Although the lives of both men have been covered in detail, Margolick does a fine job of not only portraying crucial events—with the help of new interviews and newly unsealed histories and documents—but also plowing through the misty romanticism that still surrounds these men.” —Kirkus Review
“Margolick interweaves the two biographies skillfully and doesn’t shy away from puncturing idealization of 1960s progressivism with warts-and-all depictions of both men and their faults, tempers, and agendas . . . This is a valuable contribution to the body of work on 1960s America.” —Publishers Weekly
“Bringing King and Kennedy together in one book is a masterstroke that allows for a more complete analysis of [both men] . . . Knowing what’s coming in 1968, Margolick still manages to keep the tension ratcheted up as he provides the highlights of their rollercoaster-like lives.” —Washington Independent Review of Books
“A vivid, vibrant, deeply thoughtful and well-informed reflection on the 1960s’ two most fascinating public figures.” —David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Bearing the Cross and Rising Star
“A superb book about two extraordinary leaders. David
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Margolick describes, as no one before him ever has, the dynamic but sometimes strained relationship between Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy—how they ascended the same mountain from opposite sides, and how they almost made it to the top together.” —William vanden Heuvel, former deputy ambassador to the United Nations and long-time aide to Robert F. Kennedy
“Five decades may have passed, but in the adept hands of David Margolick the 1960s and two of its most compelling figures and are made vivid, immediate, and most of all inspiring. King and Kennedy were giants; Margolick traces the braided arcs of their lives and the confluence of their deaths with the narrative power and literary grace they both deserve.” —Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
“What might Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy have achieved together? David Margolick’s prodigious research and narrative power gives us a haunting and original insight into the eight-year dance between the dreamer and the doubter.” —Harold Evans, author of The American Century
“Five decades may have passed, but in the adept hands of David Margolick the 1960s and two of its most compelling figures and are made vivid, immediate, and most of all inspiring. King and Kennedy were giants; Margolick traces the braided arcs of their lives and the confluence of their deaths with the narrative power and literary grace they both deserve.” —Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
“What might Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy have achieved together? David Margolick’s prodigious research and narrative power gives us a haunting and original insight into the eight-year dance between the dreamer and the doubter.” —Harold Evans, author of The American Century
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