King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop

In this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a concise, stunningly relevant and radical Martin Luther King, Jr. whose greatest accomplishments may have been yet to come.

King's murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil rights leaders. In commemorating King's achievements at the end of his life and ignoring his defeats, too many Americans quickly relegated the civil rights struggle to the past, halting the progres...