Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-04
Books mentioned on Best Of: A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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To Shape a New World - Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
To Shape a New World - Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr by Tommie Shelby and Brandon M.
Recommended“Brendan Harry is a professor at Harvard University and he's a co-editor of to shape a new world essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr I loved this book”
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Negroes with Guns
Negroes with Guns by Robert F.
Discussed“one way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man named Robert Williams who wrote a book that was very popular amongst the black power generation called negroes with guns”
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Righteous discontent
Righteous Discontent by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is a historical work examining the pivotal role of Black Baptist women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Discussed“so my colleague Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham wrote a phenomenal book many years ago called righteous discontent”
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Strength to love
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Discussed“well again I I go back to the sermon he gave and it's collected and strength to love and it's called Shattered Dreams”
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE : CHAOS OR COMMUNITY? / by Martin Luther King, Jr. ; with a special introduction by Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? is a 1967 book that offers a comprehensive look at the civil rights leader's mature thought and strategic vision for American society.
Recommended“I I would probably say I think you get the best sense of his mature thought from uh his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here chaos or community which is still our question so I would definitely recommend that”
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The trumpet of conscience
Martin Luther King Jr.'s The Trumpet of Conscience is a posthumously published collection of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lectures that capture the civil rights leader's final thoughts on society, war, and justice.
Recommended“I also really love trumpet of conscience uh his Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lectures that were published posthumously”
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The Sword and the Shield
The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E.
Recommended“I really strongly recommend paneer Joseph's The Sword and the shield um it's a dual biography of uh Martin Luther King and Malcolm X”
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Dark ghettos
Tommie Shelby's Dark Ghettos is a philosophical reflection inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.
Recommended“you know I want to recommend my colleague Tommy Shelby's book dark ghettos which is a king inspired philosophical reflection on the Deep structure of ghetto poverty and what it requires of us as a society to do to redress it”
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A more beautiful and terrible history
A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis is a critical historical examination that challenges sanitized popular narratives about the American civil rights movement.
Recommended“I also really like Gian Theo Harris's uh more beautiful and terrible history I think for people coming to the study of the Civil Rights Movement for the first time or kind of curious about why some of the things that I've said don't sound familiar to them”
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