“At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68” by Taylor Branch. Hardback

“At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68” by Taylor Branch * Hardcover * Excellent Condition (8.5/10) At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement together in the face of factionalism within the Movement, hostility and harassment of the Johnson Administration, the country torn apart by Vietnam, and his own attempt (and failure) to take the Freedom Movement north. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. It is recognized as the definitive account of Martin Luther King's heroic place in our nation's history.