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| In Parting The Waters, Taylor Branch has created an unparalleled epic of America in the midst of change, poised on the threshold of its most explosive era. | In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. | At Canaan’s Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. | The Clinton Tapes offers a unique record of the Clinton presidency, as well as one of the most vivid, frank, and intimate glimpses into the mind of a sitting president ever published. |
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his landmark trilogy on the civil rights era, America in the King Years. His latest book, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (2009), is a memoir of his unprecedented eight-year project to gather a sitting president’s comprehensive oral history secretly on tape. Aside from writing, Taylor speaks before a wide variety of audiences. He began his career as a magazine journalist for The Washington Monthly in 1970, moving later to Harper’s and Esquire. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Read full biography >
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Meeting with UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp, February 2010
During my February 23 visit to Chapel Hill, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp invited me on his campus television show to talk about the Clinton book. The Chancellor has wide-ranging interests, including Beatles music.
Acclaim for The Clinton Tapes
“Taylor Branch’s latest book has made me whistle more than any comparable piece of work for a very long time, and not just because of its many remarkable disclosures.”
—Christopher Hitchens, Newsweek
“I have seldom read a more compelling account of a leader in power… An unexpected treasure-trove. Here is Clinton out of hours and off his guard… The story behind this book reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie.”
—Robert Harris, The Sunday Times (London)
“Profoundly illuminating… The most compelling story Branch captures is the way the media let us down.”
—Joan Walsh, Salon.com
“Every page of The Clinton Tapes has a new plum… Remarkable intimacy… High drama… And there’s comedy… Branch acts as a thoughtful, diffident, amiable guide.”
—Craig Seligman, The Houston Chronicle