{"id":649,"date":"2006-08-04T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/08\/iliad_after_iliad\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T15:04:58","slug":"iliad_after_iliad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/08\/iliad_after_iliad\/","title":{"rendered":"ILIAD AFTER ILIAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0743551435.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\">You don&#8217;t see Wills <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorbranch.com\/reviews\/nybooks_4.6.html\" target=\"_blank\"> genuflect<\/A> all that often, except perhaps to St. Augustine or Abe. But I spent the vacation pouring through <B>At Canaan&#8217;s Edge<\/B> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorbranch.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Taylor Branch<\/A>, and it&#8217;s to drool for. There&#8217;s an intriguing unanswered question left dangling at the end: LBJ suddenly announces his withdrawal from the Democratic race, and two days later MLK is dead. What was King&#8217;s response to this political powderkeg?  RFK sat with his nemesis at the White House stuttering for words to convey his gratitude, the selflessness of the act&#8230; what kind of phone calls went down in those two days between political operatives, EJH, Nixon, Humphrey, and especially the Viet Cong&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t see Wills genuflect all that often, except perhaps to St. Augustine or Abe. But I spent the vacation pouring through At Canaan&#8217;s Edge by Taylor Branch, and it&#8217;s to drool for. There&#8217;s an intriguing unanswered question left dangling at the end: LBJ suddenly announces his withdrawal from the Democratic race, and two days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}