Martin Luther King, Jr.MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Marshall Frady. 2002. Read by the author. Books on Tape. 5-1.5 hour tapes. $40.00. 0-7366-8491-3. Vinyl; content notes. SA Author Frady covered Martin Luther King's civil rights campaign for Newsweek. Here he traces King's life from his childhood as a minister's son to his assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. in 1968. Frady focuses on King's commitment to nonviolence as he examines individual marches--what worked and what didn't in advancing racial equality. There is the familiar "I Have a Dream" speech; there are also the beatings and the jailings and the murders--and the womanizing wom·an·ize v. woman·ized, woman·iz·ing, woman·iz·es v.intr. To pursue women lecherously. v.tr. To give female characteristics to; feminize. , cataloged by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, that threatened to harm both King's reputation and the Civil Rights Movement. King's "snuggly privileged" background is contrasted with the "cold misery" of Malcolm X's, as Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. took issue with the nonviolence preached by King and characterized char·ac·ter·ize tr.v. character·ized, character·iz·ing, character·iz·es 1. To describe the qualities or peculiarities of: characterized the warden as ruthless. 2. King's goal as merely wanting to "to sit down and drink some coffee with some crackers in a cracker (1) A person who breaks into a computer system without authorization, whose purpose is to do damage (destroy files, steal credit card numbers, plant viruses, etc.). Because a cracker uses low-level hacker skills to do cracking, the terms "cracker" and "hacker" have become restaurant." Frady's reading brings out King's fears and doubts, as well as his courage and commitment to civil rights. This audiobook is well worth the listen, whether or not the listener is already familiar with the remarkable story of King's life and work. Vivian E. Berg, Mandan, ND |
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