Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr.” —Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr. This brilliant examination of the great civil rights icon and the movement he led provides a lasting portrait of a man whose dream shaped American history.
“Drawing on interviews with those who knew King, previously unutilized material at Presidential libraries, and the holdings of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Mr. Oates has written the most comprehensive account of King’s life yet published. . . . He displays a remarkable understanding of King’s individual role in the civil rights movement. . . . Oates’s biography helps us appreciate how sorely King is missed.” —Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review
Editor's Note
Stunning biography…
All of us know King is a hero. But “Let the Trumpet Sound” really turned King into one of my personal heroes more than learning about him in school, watching “Selma,” or reading some of his most famous speeches ever has. Following MLK from his time as a young boy through his schooling and various civil rights protests really reveals how rare a soul and how gifted an orator he was. His thoughts on various topics, from communism to capitalism, race and reparations, and spirituality, are all fascinating and informing.
Stephen B. Oates
Stephen B. Oates (1936-2021) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good biography of the life Martin Luther King Jr. I did not know much about King's life before and was impressed with his courage and commitment to the cause.