Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

On April 4th, 1968 a shot rang out in the Memphis sky bringing to a close the life of the last great American hero, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jnr.Although known to most for the delivery of his “”I Have a Dream”” address, which followed the peaceful march on Washington DC of 250,000 people, and as the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (at age thirty-five), King in his eleven years as elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organisation formed to provide new leadership to the then burgeoning civil rights movement, travelled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action.Let the Trumpet Sound is the detailed examination of this life, written by Stephen B Oates, winner of the Robert E Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award.

Reviews of Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

A monumental work … A stirring portrait. * * Publishers Weekly * * Absorbing and genuinely moving * * Saturday Review * * A must-read for anyone interested in the life of America's greatest civil rights leader — Charles Johnson Moving, scholarly , fresh, lucid, invaluable … The book on Martin Luther King — William Manchester The thrilling story is not only full of drama, but of the real King, his bravery, his triumph, his pain and his doubts. * * Washington Post Book World * * Stirring … evokes the man and his epic struggle with all the you-are-here vividness of a first-rate documentary … clearly the best biography we have * * Newsday * *