Although Martin Luther King Jr. was certainly deserving of a federal holiday, it had the effect of quieting the national perception of his radicalism. Peniel Joseph's double-biography of Malcolm X and Dr. King is all the more important, then, because in a concise, readable, and well-argued fashion, it makes the case both that King was far more radical t…
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