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Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race, by Thomas Landess and Richard Quinn (Jameson, 269 pp., $19.95)

The Reverend Jesse Jackson is some piece of work. A middle-echelon factotum in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference who never enjoyed his leader’s confidence or esteem, he fraudulently wrapped himself in the fallen leader’s bloody mantle on the night of the assassination 18 years ago, declaring before the TV cameras, “Yes, I was the last man in the world King spoke to.” A bald-faced lie. He had been downstairs at the time of the shooting.

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Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race, by Thomas Landess and Richard Quinn (Jameson, 269 pp., $19.95)

The Reverend Jesse Jackson is some piece of work. A middle-echelon factotum in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference who never enjoyed his leader’s confidence or esteem, he fraudulently wrapped himself in the fallen leader’s bloody mantle on the night of the assassination 18 years ago, declaring before the TV cameras, “Yes, I was the last man in the world King spoke to.” A bald-faced lie. He had been downstairs at the time of the shooting.