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Bravest and Best
Pillar of Fire, by Taylor Branch
by Russell Baker
The New York Review of Books, April 9, 1998, pp. 4-7
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. Pillar of Fire (1998)
    Taylor Branch
    America in the King Years, 1963-1965
    7 Reviews
  2. The Last Crusade (1998)
    Gerald D. McKnight
    Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign
    1 Review
  3. But for Birmingham (1997)
    Glenn T. Eskew
    The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
    2 Reviews
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