Kennedy and King : The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights

"A landmark achievement" (Douglas Brinkley), Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., a pair of gifted, charismatic, and ambitious figures from strikingly different worlds. From Harry Belafonte's Manhattan apartment to the Birmingham city jail to Joseph Kennedy's Palm Beach estate, Kennedy and King delivers a narrative "grounded in diligent research and detail" (Washington Post): the risky strategies, secret meetings, outrageous personalities, and the private struggles that absorbed the lives of these two men-and forever bound them together in the cause of civil rights. Book jacket.