(Hardback)

In 1958 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the tour, a mentally unstable African American woman stabbed the civil rights leader, and an acclaimed surgeon saved his life. Pearson captures this historical moment and the life-threatening episode becomes, in a sense, a mortal danger to the soul of a nation trying to put racism behind it.

(Paperback)

A former editorial page writer at the "Wall Street Journal" recaptures the violent instant in which the civil rights movement was nearly derailed.