Description: Capturing the sweep of remarkable voices, this compelling history--now in paperback--is a collection of what America's best writers had to say on the civil rights movement, the great domestic drama of the 20th century.
Review Quotes: "Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that I've ever seen."--Tom Wicker, Mother Jones
"Compelling . . . Acting as a maestro for an orchestra of gifted writers, Meacham succeeds at transporting the reader to the confused heart of American race relations, down to the core of the misunderstandings, the invitations to hate, and the violence"--Juan Williams, The Washington Monthly