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Title: Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0-06-092473-X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful balanced biography
Comment: Stephen Oates writes a masterful biography of one of the pivotal figures of the twentieth century. Today we view Martin Luther King Jr. as a saint, and a model of what the human spirit can achieve. In his day, he was viewed by many in the South with fear, hatred and loathing.
It is easy to view this situation in hindsight, and assume that everyone was just ignorant. Oates writes of the complex history, the battles within and outside "the movement" and how divided the nation was at the time. Oates also does not shirk away from many of Martin Luther King's personal weaknesses. In this sense, he humanizes the great leader, instead of canonizes him.
In the end, I am left with three conclusions:
1 - Martin Luther King Jr. indeed found a way to overcome hatred with love, and in doing so helped America avoid a race war.
2 - The message of civil rights was both religeous and personal. Despite today's views of the right being the party of religeon, in his day the southern liberal movement was galvanized in the church.
3 - Despite this, he was a flawed individual. His human weakness does not diminish his accomplishment.
The book is not light reading. Read it. Let it soak in. And comprehend.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Comment: This book was about a big part of our United States History. It was about Civil Rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was a big Civil Rights activist in the 1960's. I learned quite a bit about Martin Luther Kings's life that I did not know before I had read this book.
Martin Luther King was one of the most important people of our country's history. He fought for African-Americans Civil Rights. He was a very determined man, who was alwyas put into jail numerous times for his "peaceful protests". He had given several speeches as well. The author of this book is Stephen B. Oates. He is a good writer, who has written 16 books.He has also won many literary prizes such as the Christopher Award. This book is very well written. He clearly tells the story as if he had experienced it. His strenghts include: Getting actual quotes from the people that were important in this time, having pictures of Mr. King and others, and having footnotes that explained the story more in depth. I can not think of many weaknesses that he has. However, the book was long but I did not expect it to be short due to the importance of the topic. I would reccomend this book to many people. The reason why is because it tells you in depth stories about Martin Luther King Jr. and his life, but it does have profanity and innappropriate content for young children. All in all, this was a very good biography and taught me many things.
Rating: 5
Summary: Important book about a hero
Comment: This is the best biography I've read, not only about King but overall. Oates does a fine job balancing between illuminating details that help make King accessible to the reader without getting bogged down in this detail. Likewise, this balance provides a fine introduction to the Civil rights movement. (I don't consider a weakness of Let the Trumpets Sound that Oates doesn't dwell on certain of Kings weaknesses, as he instead focuses on King's message and actions; again, I think Oates concentrates on the myriad aspects of King's life, and the movement, that truly were important.)
Anybody trying to learn more about the Civil rights Movement should read this (along with such books the Autobiograpohy of Malcolm X and any of a number of books about Gandhi).
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Title: The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert Utley, Robert M. Utley ISBN: 0345389387 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0060924713 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage by Ellen Carol Dubois ISBN: 0300080689 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Wall Between by Anne Braden ISBN: 1572330619 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, Combined Edition by Jeanne Boydston, Nick Cullather, Jan Lewis, Michael McGerr, James Oakes ISBN: 0130337714 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 16 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $101.00 |
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