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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years)
by Taylor Branch
from Simon & Schuster

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Branch's Pillar of Fire
  This is an intense book filled with many facts. Often far too many facts to process well and comprehend the story. That may seem a bit much but the purpose of Branch's book seems to be to write down as much as possible. Still, the events are exciting and not to be missed. The time period begins with an assassination of a president and ends with the assassination of a......what was Malcolm X anyway? A very interesting yet troubling man? I have yet to figure out and may never. I do know he was there.

• The Angle of Moment
  With 30 other reviews for this book (so far), it would seem that everything that needs to be said about this book has been said already. And I would second the praise for the book. It is vital reading for any student of American history. It is well written; indeed, I felt the writing style was more literary and more suspenseful than PTW. The allocation of styles is sensible; the straightforward, conservative narrative style of PTW is helpful for readers new to the subject, while POF follows with a somewhat... more info

• Branch's Trilogy
  Volume one of Branch's biography of King, though interesting most of the time, suffers from Branch's sometime tortuous syntax and lack of focus, it seems. _Parting the Waters_, overall, was excellent, but I only wish that it flowed always when it only flowed some of the time.
  Beginning now to read _Pillar of Fire_, volume two of the trilogy, I am again struck with Branch's convoluted and twised syntax, which smooths itself out at some point only to become twisted once more. Also, volume two seems, at... more info

• Impossible not to be a letdown
  Any follow up to Parting the Waters is destined to be anticlimatic. Concedingly, there are a few drawbacks to Pillar of Fire. Nonetheless, this is another classic work from Branch.
  General Remarks:
  1. About half of the first section of the book is a summary about the "tides" leading to the Birmingham campaign in 1963. Accordingly, it has a text book feel and it quite bland, especially if you just finished reading Parting the Waters. However, the summary will be beneficial if you need a memory... more info

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