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The Promise and the Dream - The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (Hardcover): David Margolick The Promise and the Dream - The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (Hardcover)
David Margolick; Foreword by Douglas Brinkley
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song (Paperback): David Margolick Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song (Paperback)
David Margolick
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R445 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R56 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would have an impact on generations of fans, black and white, unknown and famous, including performers Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, and Sting.

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights (Paperback, Main): David Margolick Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights (Paperback, Main)
David Margolick; Foreword by Hilton Als
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R320 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R65 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text explores the story of a song that foretold a movement, and the lady who dared to sing it. In 1939, the performance of the song's evocative lyrics portraying the lynching of a black man in the Southern US sparked controversy, and sometimes violence, wherever Billie Holiday went. It was 25 years before Dr Martin Luther King Jr, led his famous march on Washington, yet "Strange Fruit" lived on. In this text Margolick chronicles its effect on those who experienced it first-hand: musicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals, students and even the waitresses and bartenders who worked in the clubs.

At the Bar - The Passions and Peccadilloes of American Lawyers (Paperback): David Margolick At the Bar - The Passions and Peccadilloes of American Lawyers (Paperback)
David Margolick
R586 R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Save R62 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every Friday for seven years, David Margolick has examined the American fascination with the culture of law and lawyering in his New York Times column, "At the Bar". Here are the best of his observations on the lawyer's trade -- from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders. From profiles of distinguished or notorious legal professionals to provocative explorations of legal ethics and observations on the changing legal profession, this collection is an entertaining must-read for anyone interested in the folkways of modern American law, put forth with wit, rigor, and insight by one of the nation's foremost legal commentators.

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