King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
- ISBN-10
- 0809063492
- ISBN-13
- 9780809063499
- Series
- King
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-06
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Harvard Sitkoff
Description
An incisive biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., looks at the life and legacy of one of America's most important civil rights leaders, describing both his successes and his failures while speculating about King's potential future accomplishments in a career cut tragically short by his 1968 assassination. Reprint.
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