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King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop

By Sitkoff, Harvard
King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
Might Martin Luther King, Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? By telling the Civil Rights leader's life as one on the verge of reaching its fulfillment, Harvard Sitkoff powerfully shows where King's faith and activism were leading him.

Details

Authors: Sitkoff, Harvard
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780809063499
ISBN10: 0809063492
Page Count: 288
Dimensions: 5.4x0.9x8.4
Publisher: Hill & Wang

Strand Notes

This fast-paced biography presents a stunningly relevant and radical King. Harvard Sitkoff honestly assesses King's successes alongside his failures, weaving together high and low points to capture King's lifelong struggle through disappointment and epiphany with his own injunction, "Let us be Christian in all our actions." By telling King's life as one on the verge of reaching its fulfillment, Sitkoff powerfully depicts where King's faith and activism were leading him - to a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war and with an America blind to its complicity in economic injustice. Bibliographical Essay, Index. 270p.

Description

In this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant and radical King. Honestly assessing his successes alongside his failures, King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop weaves together high and low points to capture King's lifelong struggle, through disappointment and epiphany, with his own injunction: "Let us be Christian in all our actions." By telling King's life as one on the verge of reaching its fulfillment, Sitkoff powerfully shows where King's faith and activism were leading him--to a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war and with an America blind to its complicity in economic injustice.

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