Death of a King

I was a child when James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King, Jr. There are no memories of this time for me -- I'm surprised my father didn't throw a party -- but there is nothing....no awareness.

I recently finished Hampton Sides' HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt For His Assassin. With vivid prose, Sides moves along the narrative with such precision that the reader does feel they are present in the moment. Clearly, the research was exhaustive because the result is a tremendously successful chronicle of a dark time in our nation's past illuminated by a writer of great skill.

For anyone, like me, who wants to know, not just what really happened, but how it happened, I strongly recommend this book.

Learn more about Hampton Sides here.

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