"Judgment Days in an important examination of a critical moment in American history--a battle for our nation's soul. Nick Kotz brings new insights to how President Lyndon Johnson, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders achieved an enormous breakthrough for the cause of equality and justice. Kotz has given us valuable historical perspectives at a time when it is imperative that we renew the fight for a more perfect union."

--Former President Jimmy Carter

"A great, serious book by one of the greatest, most serious writers of our time."

--Bob Woodward, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author of Plan of Attack

"The saga of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson engaged together, but apart, in the liberation struggles of the 50's and 60's constitutes one of the most profound and moving of all of the stories about America. Nick Kotz has done a masterful job of using newly available historical materials to bring new depth and compassionate understanding to the struggles, triumphs and torments of these two great Americans."

--Roger Wilkins, former Assistant Attorney General under President Johnson, Professor of History at George Mason University, and author of Jefferson's Pillow

"Nick Kotz has written a marvelous, highly readable book--a thriller, really--about the events that changed America in the 1960s--and about the unlikely partners who led that change."

--David Halberstam, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author of The Best and the Brightest and The Children

"Judgment Days is a compelling reconstruction of the battle for equal rights in the 1960s as seen through the public lives of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King. Kotz's vivid account of their relationship and its impact on the great transformation in social relations between blacks and whites in America will become essential reading for anyone interested in these two major 20th-century figures and the history of civil rights."

--Robert Dallek, author of Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1960-1973

"Nick Kotz has brought us an important, honest, well-researched and elegant account of two towering American leaders and their impact on a crucial epoch in our history that continues to affect all of our lives."

--Michael Beschloss, author of The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany

"Judgment Days is a powerful and moving story of two men, both southerners, one black, one white, using the law and non-violent means to transform American politics. This is a must-read for anyone to learn how Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. ushered in a non-violent revolution in America. In doing so, Nick Kotz has made a lasting contribution to the story of how a new day came to the American south."

--Congressman John Lewis, first Chairman of SNCC and the Senior Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus

"Seldom has Democracy worked as efficiently to resolve a major crisis as under the leadership of Martin Luther King and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Their triumph over racial segregation without massive violence is in direct line of our nation's founding fathers. But along with their triumph was the Hoover-manipulated tragedy that made it impossible for Martin to help Johnson understand and negotiate our international crisis together as they had progressed through the explosive domestic crisis. Nick Kotz's Judgment Days adds valuable new perspective and understanding to this important American story."

--Andrew Young, former executive director of SCLC, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, member of Congress, and mayor of Atlanta