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Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert
F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever
written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more
than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving
associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by
the author's access to King's personal papers and tens of thousands
of pages of FBI documents, this is a towering portrait of a man's
metamorphosis into a legend.
In the last weeks of the 1960 presidential race, Louis Martin
pulled off a minor miracle. With two days to go before the
election, this passionate civil rights advocate and Democratic
activists put two million pamphlets into the hands of black voters
across America, informing them of Senator John F. Kennedy's
sympathetic phone call to Martin Luther King, Jr., then languishing
in a Georgia prison. The center of gravity in black partisan
support shifted, and Kennedy won by a hair. This is just one
example of the remarkable influence Louis Martin had on national
politics for more than four decades. Now, for the first time, the
story of Louis Martin's life is told. Walking with Presidents
traces the career of an African American who rose from crusading
journalist to preeminent presidential advisor and civil rights
liason in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations. Martin
was the consummate insider, unconcerned about who got credit for
his work so long as he could advance his mission bringing African
Americans into the political mainstream.
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