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Taylor Branch an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of the American civil rights movement. The third and final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy — collectively called America in the King Years — was released in January 2006. Branch is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a Masters in Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Branch has served in different capacities at a number of publications including The Washington Monthly, Harper’s and Esquire Magazine. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
Date: 10/15/2009

The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Martin Luther King Jr. biography, "Parting the Waters," Taylor Branch discusses his new book, "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President," which is based on 79 taped conversations Branch had with President Clinton during his eight years in office. A longtime friend of Clinton, Mr. Branch served as the president’s secret diarist, tape-recording conversations about virtually every major event, issue, and personality of Clinton’s two terms. The book offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a sitting president.

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