No issue in America in the 1960s was more vital than civil rights,
and no two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race
relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F.
Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted
journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of the complex
and ever-evolving relationship between these two American icons.
Assassinated only sixty-two days apart in 1968, King and Kennedy
changed the United States forever, and their deaths profoundly
altered the country's trajectory. In The Promise and the Dream,
Margolick examines their unique bond and the complicated mix of
mutual assistance, impatience, wariness, awkwardness, antagonism,
and admiration that existed between the two, documented with
original interviews, oral histories, FBI files, and previously
untapped contemporaneous accounts. At a turning point in social
history, MLK and RFK embarked on distinct but converging paths
toward lasting change. Even when they weren't interacting directly,
they monitored and learned from, one another. Their joint story, a
story each man took some pains to hide and which began to come into
focus only with their murders, is not just gripping history but a
window into contemporary America and the challenges we continue to
face. Complemented by award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley's
foreword and more than eighty revealing photos by the foremost
photojournalists of the period, The Promise and the Dream offers a
compelling look at one of the most consequential but misunderstood
relationships in our nation's history.
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