Volume 49, Number 6 · April 11, 2002
The House of the Prophet
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Martin Luther King Jr.
by Marshall Frady
Lipper/Viking, 216 pp., $19.95
Five years from now, Martin Luther King Jr. will have been dead longer than he lived. In the decades since his assassination, his life and words have become a touchstone for interpreters of America's long struggle for racial justice. Children all over this country are raised now with his name on their lips; almost everyone will recognize the sonorous phrases of the speech he made at the March on Washington in 1963. For many around the world, 'I have a dream' means Martin Luther King, and his dream is the American dream.
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