Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern

ISBN: 0060566922

Author: Garrow, David

Condition: new

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights MovementWinner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews, access to Kings personal papers, and thousands of FBI documents, Bearing the Cross traces Kings metamorphosis from a young, earnest pastor into the foremost spokesperson of the black freedom struggle. At the books heart is Kings growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross as he gradually accepts a life that will demand the ultimate in self-sacrifice. This is a towering portrait of a man at the epicenter of one of the most dramatic periods in our history.