{"product_id":"what-would-martin-say","title":"What Would Martin Say?","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn April 4  1968  the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis  Tennessee  depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at such a young age that it is hard to believe that he has been gone longer than the brief time he spent on this earth. He spoke out not only on segregation and racism against African Americans  but about many other issues of the day  from police brutality and labor strikes to the Vietnam War. Given the current state of the world  we would all benefit from hearing Martins voice  if only he were alive today. . . . If anyone would have insight into what Martin would say  it would be Clarence B. Jones  Kings personal lawyer and one of his closest principal advisers and confidants. Jonesnow seventy-seven  has chosen the occasion of this somber anniversary to break his silenceremoving the mythic distance of forty years time to reveal the flesh-and-blood man he knew as his friend  Martin. Jones ponders what the outspoken rights leader would say about the serious issues that bedevil contemporary America: Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq  reparations for slavery  anti-Semitism  affirmative action  illegal immigration  and the vacuum of African American leadership. Delving deep into his memories of the man he worked closely beside  and with help from the King Institute at Stanford University and reams of formerly top-secret and now declassified FBI files  Jones offers the guidance and insight his friend and mentor would have provided for us in these troubled times. Many Americans today know of Martin Luther King only from video clips and history books. As Jones so aptly reminds us  this legendary figure was also a warm human being full of lifeand more relevant now than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945087266869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0061253200","price":48.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780061253201_47b50a8a-00c7-4c22-a9cd-c4a99ac0efe6.jpg?v=1770255944","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-would-martin-say","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}