Fully titled, Let the Trumpet Sound : The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Authored by Stephen B. Oates, FIRST EDITION (stated), FIRST PRINTING (full number line), published in 1982 by Harper & Row.  Overall in VERY GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION.  Dust jacket with light edge wear, a few tiny chips and tears, price-clipped, and now handsomely portrayed in a mylar jacket.  Pristine black cloth boards with clear spine titling.  No interior marks in 560 clean and solidly bound pages including a photo section, except for NICE INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE OF AUTHOR STEPHEN B. OATES.  The autograph has not been authenticated, but is consistent with others that can be found online - no other signed copies of this book were found online but another one by the author, Our Fiery Trail: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and the Civil War Era, did have a very consistent inscription and signature of Stephen B. Oates.

An overview including some quotes on the book found online:

" “The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr.” —Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer

Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr. This brilliant examination of the great civil rights icon and the movement he led provides a lasting portrait of a man whose dream shaped American history.

“Drawing on interviews with those who knew King, previously unutilized material at Presidential libraries, and the holdings of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Mr. Oates has written the most comprehensive account of King’s life yet published. . . . He displays a remarkable understanding of King’s individual role in the civil rights movement. . . . Oates’s biography helps us appreciate how sorely King is missed.” —Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review."

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