Article: Muddying the waters; the years of Martin Luther King.

The latest installment of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson was either praised or damned by reviewers this spring. Both sides had their points: Caro's work, like his first book about Johnson and his outstanding biography of Robert Moses, is for the most part brilliant, but his distaste for Johnson led him to exaggerate LBJ's flaws and downplay his virtues, while sanctifying LBJ's old political rival Coke Stevenson, who was, to put it gently, less than fully deserving of the honor. All of this got us to wondering how even such a clearly heroic figure as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might fare under Caro's approach. Fortunately, we didn't have to wonder long, because, ...

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