"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on that hot August day in 1963, the crowd stood electrified as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time. That speech is commonly regarded, along the Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest in American history. Behind the Dream is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the weeks leading up to the great event, as told by Clarence Jones, a co-writer of the speech and close confidant to King himself. Jones was there, on the road, collaborating with the great minds of the time, and hammering out the ideas that would shape the civil rights movement and inspire Americans for years to come.