The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Lewis V. Baldwin

Book Overview

Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King's image with the publication of his controversial books What Would Martin Say? (2008) and Behind the Dream (2011). King emerges from Jones's books not as a prophetic radical who attacked systemic racial injustice, economic exploitation, and wars of aggression, but as a fiercely conservative figure who would oppose affirmative action...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498214932
• ISBN13: 9781498214933
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"