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Book Review


To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955–1968. By Stewart Burns. (New York: HarperCollins, 2004. x, 502 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-06-054245-4.)
Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Stewart Burns narrates the inspirational story of Martin Luther King Jr. from the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott, which catapulted him onto the national stage, to his assassination in Memphis in 1968. The book incorporates interesting portraits of several civil rights luminaries, from Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer to Bayard Rustin and Malcolm X. King is portrayed as a complex character who struggled not only against racism, but also against his own demons. . . .
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