{"product_id":"9781453286135","title":"The Children","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fifties\u003c\/i\u003e: An “intimate and monumental” account of the people at the core of the civil rights movement (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam’s brilliant and poignant \u003ci\u003eThe Children\u003c\/i\u003e came together through Reverend James Lawson’s workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at the Nashville lunch counters and on the Freedom Rides across the South—all chronicled here with Halberstam’s characteristic clarity and insight. \u003ci\u003eThe Children\u003c\/i\u003e exhibits the incredible strength of generations of black Americans, who sacrificed greatly to improve the world for their children. Following Diane Nash, John Lewis, Gloria Johnson, Bernard Lafayette, Marion Barry, Curtis Murphy, James Bevel, and Rodney Powell, among others, \u003ci\u003eThe Children\u003c\/i\u003e is rooted in Halberstam’s coverage of the civil rights movement for Nashville’s\u003ci\u003e Tennessean\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A New York Times Notable Book, this volume garnered extraordinary acclaim for David Halberstam, the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e. Upon its publication, the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e called it “utterly absorbing . . . The civil rights movement already has produced superb works of history, books such as David J. Garrow’s \u003ci\u003eBearing the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e and Taylor Branch’s recently published \u003ci\u003ePillar of Fire. \u003c\/i\u003e. . . Halberstam adds another with \u003ci\u003eThe Children\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThis ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182527725808,"sku":"9781453286135","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453286135_p0.jpg?v=1769907350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453286135","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}