Branch鈥檚 Pulitzer-prize winning trilogy consists of 鈥Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963鈥 (Simon and Schuster, 1088 pp.), 鈥Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65鈥 (Simon and Schuster, 768 pp.), and 鈥淎t Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68" (Simon and Schuster, 1056 pp.). Readers agree that this all-encompassing body of work isn鈥檛 just a biography of a great man, but a portrait of America.
