Katori Hall's 'The Mountaintop' reaches beyond expected history

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Let us now praise famous men -- that's a favorite approach to the lives of the great, and Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the greatest, joining Nelson Mandela as titans of the epochal 20th-century revolution in race relations.
Or, let us find their feet of clay and take them down -- that's another favorite way to approach the great. Who is without sin?
Or, let's just make of them whatever our agenda demands.
The possibilities are many.