The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/KING,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, 2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
viii, 373 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781541617865, 154161786X :, 154161786X, 9781541617865
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"The Sword and the Shield is a dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King that transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. Peniel E. Joseph reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define"--