Five years after the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the eastern coast and triggered a tsunami that killed 18,000 people, the country paused to reflect.
Two of the principal actors—Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy—are dead; the third—J. Edgar Hoover—holds most of the secrets to himself. In this reconstruction, the result of six years of analysis and detective work, a lawyer-turned-writer pieces together the facts about the disturbing case of Washington’s spying on Dr. King.
Markets, weapons, and a deal, any deal, are likely to matter more than Israeli-Palestinian peace.