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Taylor Branch
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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (which won the Pulitzer Prize), Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes. Branch is a former staff member of The Washington Monthly, Harper's, and Esquire. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Clinton Tapes will be released on June 01, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Jun 01, 2010
The Clinton Tapes is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 01, 2010
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At Canaan's Edge has won an award
Mar 26, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Clinton Tapes
Feb 03, 2010
Nov 07, 2009
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Sep 30, 2009
The Clinton Tapes will be released on September 29, 2009 in Hardcover
Sep 29, 2009
The Clinton Tapes will be released on September 29, 2009 in eAudio
Sep 29, 2009
The Clinton Tapes will be released on September 29, 2009 in eBook
Sep 29, 2009
The Clinton Tapes is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Sep 29, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Clinton Tapes
Sep 22, 2009
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Sep 12, 2009
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The Clinton Tapes
Aug 28, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 6 from Pillar of Fire
Jun 20, 2009
The Clinton Tapes is now available in Hardcover
May 12, 2009
The Clinton Tapes is now available in Compact Disk
May 12, 2009

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PR-USA.net, January 18, 2012
...Times Excellence in Sport Essays John Branch, "Blood on the Ice" (New York Times) Excellence in Sport Essays Taylor Branch, "The Shame of College Sports" (The Atlantic) Books of the Year (Non-Fiction) Adam Proteau, Fighting the Good Fight: Why On-Ice...
Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 2012
...1.The King trilogy, by Taylor Branch Branch’s Pulitzer-prize winning trilogy consists of “Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963” (Simon and Schuster, 1088 pp.), “Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years...
Memphis Flyer, January 12, 2012
...a labor — exceedingly rewarding, but an effort all the same. Also on my docket for 2012 are Taylor Branch's Martin Luther King trilogy, lots of crime fiction I'm sure, and maybe even I'll get around to start tackling Proust's Lost Time series. (Or maybe...
Bend Bulletin, January 8, 2012
...the time they are in their 30s thanks to the beatings their bodies took during their athletic careers. Taylor Branch, the author of the Atlantic essay, was a good football player in high school, but he turned down a football scholarship to Georgia Tech...
World Book and News, December 31, 2011
...Three Cups of Deceit, Ann Patchett’s The Getaway Car, William T. Vollmann’s Into the Forbidden Zone, Taylor Branch’s The Cartel, and Mark Bittman’s Cooking Solves Everything. The companion website, Byliner.com, features curated archives of the...
NewsGuide.us, December 30, 2011
...Three Cups of treachery, Ann Patchett’s The retreat Car, William T. Vollmann’s Into the Forbidden Zone, Taylor Branch’s The Cartel, and Mark Bittman’s Cooking Solves all that. The comrade website, Byliner.com, features curated archives of the...
New York Review of Books, December 15, 2011
...s opposition to the Vietnam War, yet he refused to use Hoover’s dossier against King, according to Taylor Branch, one of King’s most distinguished biographers . Major news outlets also declined the sex scandals about King that Hoover tried to pass on...
New York Review of Books, December 15, 2011
...s opposition to the Vietnam War, yet he refused to use Hoover’s dossier against King, according to Taylor Branch, one of King’s most distinguished biographers . Major news outlets also declined the sex scandals about King that Hoover tried to pass on...
Construction Today, December 12, 2011
...past summer, LPCiminelli hosted two interns from the Buffalo Public School system as part of Upward Bound. Students Taylor Branch and Jewel Freeman worked at the LPCiminelli corporate office during the six-week summer program. During this time, the...
New York Magazine, December 10, 2011
...Lance Armstrongs former teammate Tyler Hamilton this spring. In October, The Atlantic published a cover story by historian Taylor Branch that documented how big universities and their corporate sponsors exploit the young athletes who have turned...
St Augustine Herald, December 9, 2011
...sacrificed so much for equal opportunities.” Keynote speaker Keynote speaker for this event is Pulitzer Prize winning author, Taylor Branch, of Baltimore, Md. Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his land-mark narrative...
WXVT-TV, December 7, 2011
...its launch last spring, has published a series of bestselling nonfiction Byliner Originals from Jon Krakauer, Ann Patchett, Taylor Branch, William Vollmann, Mark Bittman, and other distinguished and breakthrough authors. Tan takes us deep into a world...
Los Angeles Business, December 7, 2011
...its launch last spring, has published a series of bestselling nonfiction Byliner Originals from Jon Krakauer, Ann Patchett, Taylor Branch, William Vollmann, Mark Bittman, and other distinguished and breakthrough authors. Tan takes us deep into a world...
New Mexico Business Weekly, December 7, 2011
...its launch last spring, has published a series of bestselling nonfiction Byliner Originals from Jon Krakauer, Ann Patchett, Taylor Branch, William Vollmann, Mark Bittman, and other distinguished and breakthrough authors. Tan takes us deep into a world...