Parting the Waters – Reviews
“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
“Stunning... commands the attention of all who wish to understand the times in which they live.”
– J. Anthony Lukas
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Common Ground
“Branch has fit together all the pieces – the people, places, events – to show relationships, the larger picture we may have missed or forgotten. With this ordered, sweeping look at the movement and King, we are able to put things into perspective.”
– Patsy Sims, Chicago Sun Times
“Branch gives us a canvas as broad, varied and richly peopled as a medieval religious painting. Should be required reading for every black and white citizen of the state.”
– Garland Reeves, The Birmingham News
“In remarkable, meticulous detail, Branch provides us with the most complex and unsentimental version of King and his times yet produced.”
Robert C. Maynard, The Washington Post Book World