Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stephen B. Oates

560 pages first pub 1982 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Ideal for the patient, detail-oriented reader who relishes a slow, meticulously sourced, and moodily reverent deep-dive into a transformative historical figure and the era he shaped.

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"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr." --Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia InquirerWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New Yo...

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