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Written by Taylor Branch - Audio book narrated by Joe Morton & CCH Pounder - Adaptation - Nonfiction - 6 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (February 2006)

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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 its zenith, picking up where the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters left off. 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 of the narrative, 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 1963-1965 -- 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 frank, revealing portraits 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 to simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls.

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.

About the Narrator: Joe Morton has starred on Broadway in Raisin, (Tony Award Nominee), and Art. In London's West End, he appeared in Stuff Happens. His film credits include The Brother From Another Planet, Terminator 2 and Stealth. Television credits include E-Ring, Smallville, Miss Ever's Boys, and Jasper Texas.