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It's a family affair.

Taylor Branch's incredible series on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement spans three volumes.

It's almost 3,000 pages with hundreds of footnotes.

It won awards like the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and the National Book Critic Circle Award.

More importantly, it's really, really good, a must read for anyone trying to understand

social change or American history.

Undoubtedly, Branch is quite pleased with this masterwork of literature, which he spent

untold hours researching, writing, editing, and talking about.

Surely the sales have been some reward for that work, too.

But there is a note tucked away in the

acknowledgments of the final volume that truly captures both the experience and family effort

such an achievement entailed. Our son Franklin, Branch writes, who was born weeks before my first

trip to the Lorraine Motelel finished college in time to help me

with my final research. From idea to published works from birth to adulthood, the books and his

son developed and entered the world on similar trajectories. We talked recently about those

great moments in sports where the first thing an athlete does after reaching

the mountaintop is reach for their kids. The truth is, though, that their kids were there all along,

if they were doing it right. Your kids are with you on this too. They are part of your journey,

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