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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; 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. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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The King Years will be released on August 13, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 17, 2013
Jan 16, 2013
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The King Years
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years is now available in Audio Download, eBook
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years will be released on January 08, 2013 in Audio Download, eBook
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years will be released on January 08, 2013 in Hardcover, Audio Download, eBook, Enhanced eBook
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years is now available in Hardcover, Audio Download, eBook, Enhanced eBook
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years (Enhanced Edition) will be released on January 08, 2013 in eBook, Enhanced eBook
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years (Enhanced Edition) is now available in eBook, Enhanced eBook
Jan 08, 2013
Audio Excerpt:
The King Years
Jan 05, 2013
The King Years is now available in Audio Download
Jan 01, 2013
The King Years will be released on January 01, 2013 in Audio Download
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Advertiser Democrat, April 18, 2013
...Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures;” Max Boot, “Invisible Armies: an Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare;” Taylor Branch, “The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement;” Siobhan Dolan, “Healthy Mom, Healthy Babies;”...
Huffington Post, April 14, 2013
...confirmed writers, provided last week by the Library of Congress: Renowned authors and poets Margaret Atwood, Marie Arana, Taylor Branch, Don DeLillo, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Brad Meltzer, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Paterson and U.S. Poet...
DePauw University, April 10, 2013
...is studded with prominent writers and poets." Others scheduled to appear are Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood,Taylor Branch, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. "All together, there will be more than 100 speakers and there isn't much drop-off...
Targeted News Service, April 10, 2013
...-- The Library of Congress issued the following news release: Renowned authors and poets Margaret Atwood, Marie Arana, Taylor Branch, Don DeLillo, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Brad Meltzer, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Paterson and U.S. Poet...
Baltimore Sun, April 9, 2013
...usual, the event is studded with prominent writers and poets. Among the headliners: Margaret Atwood, Baltimore's own Taylor Branch, Don DeLillo, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Joyce Carol Oates, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. All...
FinanzNachrichten.de, April 1, 2013
...Speakers include Anna Deveare Smith, Lisa Wong, and Taylor Branch What: On April 22 the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, in association with Comcast Corporation, will host the third annual Aspen Institute Symposium on the State of Race...
NewsOK.com, February 24, 2013
...the new book “The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement” (Simon & Schuster, $26), author Taylor Branch offers a new point of view about a well-known story. In 1954, the Supreme Court rendered a decision in the case Brown v. Board...
Gnom.es, January 19, 2013
...LBJ hands Ted Sorensen, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Richard Goodwin, as well as Martin Luther King’s biographer, Taylor Branch, to offer some language. The drafting of the speech was chaotic; Clinton pulled an all-nighter and was making changes at the...
Hartford Courant, January 19, 2013
...Rev. Canon Petero Sabune, the Episcopal church's officer for Africa, to read the first two volumes of Taylor Branch's acclaimed trilogy of King and the struggles and triumphs of the civil rights movement. (I'm starting the third.) The passage of time...
Atlanta Business Chronicle, January 18, 2013
...Taylor Branch can rightfully lay claim to being one of the most famous native Atlantans in the world. Though he hasn’t lived here in decades, having long ago traded the...
Hartford Courant, January 18, 2013
...Rev. Canon Petero Sabune, the Episcopal church's officer for Africa, to read the first two volumes of Taylor Branch's acclaimed trilogy of King and the struggles and triumphs of the civil rights movement. (I'm starting the third.) The passage of time...
Guidry News, January 18, 2013
...more details visit www.houstonlibrary.org or call 832-393-1662. About the Book In the tradition of works by Taylor Branch and J. Anthony Lukas, The Warmth of Other Suns chronicles a watershed event in American history; the decades-long migration of...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 2013
...brutal self-examination of her relationships with women. The King Years Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement By Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster; 210 pages; $26) Branch's abridged version of his acclaimed trilogy on the Rev. Martin...
RoadRunner, January 18, 2013
...House senior adviser David Plouffe will be a guest on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’ “Face the Nation,” CNN’s “State of the Union” and “Fox News Sunday.” Eva Longoria at a Golden Globes party last weekend. Photo credit: Jason Merritt/...