A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination by Clay Risen

A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination

Clay Risen

312 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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A few hours after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at a Memphis motel, violent mobs had looted and burned several blocks of Washington a few miles north of the White House, centered around the U Street commercial district. Quick actio...

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