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Written by Taylor Branch - Audio book narrated by Joe Morton & CCH Pounder - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (February 1998)

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In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at it zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage.

This audio adaptation of Pillar of Fire covers the upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965---Dallas, Mississippi Freedom Summer, the far-reaching effects of civil rights legislation, the violent reaction to the end of legalized segregation, Vietnam, Selma. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait of the major players: LBJ, Malcolm X, Bob Moses, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls.

Branch brings to bear fifteen years of research in a seminal work of history.Pillar of Fire captures the intensity of the legendary King years, when the movement broke down walls between races, regions, sexes, and religions, and between America and the larger world---an incandescent chapter in America's distinctive quest for freedom.

About the Author: 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, and At Canaan's Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-1968. The author of two other nonfiction books and a novel, Branch is a former staff member of The Washington Monthly, Harper's, and Esquire. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.