A review by mattrohn
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch

informative slow-paced

5.0

Strong closer to the series, moving from a detailed account of the Selma voting rights campaign, to the stagnation after the passage of the VRA and rising prominence of the Vietnam War, with roughly equal attention given to King, LBJ, and the rising Black Power movement. Would have appreciated more information on the fallout from King's assassination, but the way that the final two chapters narratively build is extraordinary. Overall this series definitely worth the length. It starts off very much a biography of MLK and gradually over the books becomes more a generalized history of the country in this period, but keeps themes from that early biography at the center