A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the KingAssassination
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Clay Risen, formerly an editor at the New Republic, is the founding managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He's also written for Smithsonian, Slate, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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Acknowledgments.
Prologue.
1 King, Johnson, and the Terrible, Glorious Thirty-first Day of March.
2 April 4: Before the Bullet.
3 April 4: The News Arrives.
4 April 4: U and Fourteenth.
5 April 5: Midnight Interlude.
6 April 5: “Any Man’s Death Diminishes Me”.
7 April 5: “Once That Line Has Been Crossed”.
8 April 5: “Official Disorder on Top of Civil Disorder”.
9 April 5: The Occupation of Washington.
10 April 5: “There Are No Ghettos in Chicago”.
11 April 6: Roadblocks.
12 April 6: An Eruption in Baltimore.
13 April 7: Palm Sunday.
14 April 8: Bluff City on Edge.
15 April 9: A Country Rent Asunder.
16 April 10 and 11: Two Speeches.
17 A Summer Postscript.
18 1969 and After.
Notes.
Index.
