Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election

“[An] inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King’s imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK’s campaign. It’s a story we can all learn from—a story of overlooked heroes and the power each of us has to create change.” —Barack Obama

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s best books of February 2021

The authors of Douglass and Lincoln present fully for the first time the story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s imprisonment in the days leading up to the 1960 pre...