King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop

DIVIn this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant and radical King. Honestly assessing his successes alongside his failures, King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop weaves together high and low points to capture King's lifelong struggle, through disappointment and epiphany, with his own injunction: "Let us be Christian in all our actions." By telling King's life as one on the verge of reaching its fulfillment, Sitkoff powerfully shows where King's faith and activism were leading him-to a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war and with an America blind to its complicity in economic injustice./DIVDIV"Sitkoff provides a vivid portrait that deserves to be widely read, not only as the standard short King biography but also as an incisive essay on his significance today." -ISan Francisco/IIChronicle Book Review/I "Written with skill and imagination . . .IKing: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop/Iis clearly the best short biography we have of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr." -IThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution/I "Harvard Sitkoff wants to remind us of his subject's subversive agenda, and to banish the 'airbrushed' portrait of a 'moderate, respectable ally of presidents' . . . Sitkoff argues that the more militant King is the more relevant King. And he's right." -IThe New York Observer/I "Persuasive . . . Sitkoff's skillful choice of material, his organization of the text and his fine writing style (especially compared with most academic historians) raise the biography to the top rank of books about King." -IThe News and Observer/I(Raleigh) "King is a perfect combination of author and subject: one of the deans of civil rights history tracing the life of the movement's towering figure. Harvard Sitkoff has performed a remarkable