A retelling of Greek, Roman and Norse myths.

Was it true that Washington was...cold, cautious, and obsequious-unapproachable even to his friends?...a man of vital passion and towering dignity-admired and loved by his soldiers?...a bumbling general forced into victory by the incompetence of his enemies?...a brilliant military leader, adept at the new ways of guerrilla warfare?...egocentric, with the dangerous pretensions of a Caesar?...a humble, modest man, sacrificing his own pleasure in his...

Includes sizable selections from the poetry of Edward Taylor, Wallace Stevens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carlos Williams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Overview: Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963. Often applauded as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can't Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United...