At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece
of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor
Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned
a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history.
Table of Contents
I. SELMA: THE LAST REVOLUTION
1. Warning
2. Scouts
3. Dissent
4. Boxed In
5. Over the Bridge
6. The Call
7. Devil's Choice
8. The Ghost of Lincoln
9. Wallace and the Archbishop
10. And We Shall Overcome
11. Half-Inch Hailstones
12. Neutralize Their Anxieties
13. To Montgomery
14. The Stakes of History
15. Aftershocks
16. Bearings in a Whirlwind
II. HIGH TIDE
17. Ten Feet Tall
18. Leaps of Faith
19. Gulps of Freedom
20. Fort Deposit
21. Watts and Hayneville
22. Fragile Alliance
23. Identity
III. CROSSROADS IN FREEDOM AND WAR
24. Enemy Politics
25. Inside Out
26. Refugees
27. Break Points
28. Panther Ladies
29. Meredith March
30. Chicago
31. Valley Moments
32. Backlash
IV. PASSION
33. Spy Visions
34. Riverside
35. Splinters
36. King's Choice
37. New Year Trials
38. Memphis
39. Requiem
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
