Stephen B Oates
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The first major biography of King, based on extensive research in manuscript collections, traces King's personal development as well as the development of his ideas on protest and nonviolent resistance, from the influence of Thoreau and Gandhi through the details of his participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Pub. Date
1994
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"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr." -Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin...
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c1998
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"The Whirlwind of War is the second book in Stephen B. Oates's Voices of the Storm trilogy, which began with The Approaching Fury." "The Whirlwind of War builds on the great themes and follows many of the important figures that were introduced in The Approaching Fury." "Oates brings his moving narrative of the complex, bloody, and destructive war to life by writing in the first person, impersonating the voices and assuming the viewpoints of several...