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.
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Praise for the King Era Trilogy
At Canaan’s Edge
“The crowning achievement of Branch’s King trilogy is to show anew the moral power of [nonviolent] philosophy.”
-Â The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“A thrilling book, marvelous in both its breadth and its detail. There is drama in every paragraph.”
— Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
Pillar of Fire
“By the time you have finished [Pillar of Fire], you feel almost as if you have relived the era, not just read about it.”
– Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
“This is jet-propelled history.”
– James Goodman, The Boston Globe
Parting the Waters
“Right out of the pages of our lives….Compelling portraits, placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently.”
— Eleanor Holmes Norton, The New York Times Book Review
“A compelling story, masterfully told.”
– Richard John Neuhaus, The Wall Street Journal
