BEARING THE CROSS - Hardcover

GARROW, DAVID J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0099302608 ISBN 13: 9780099302605

Publisher: RH Canada UK Dist, 1994

Synopsis

Book by GARROW, DAVID J.

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Review:

In this 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, David J. Garrow, through extensive interviews, and access to F.B.I. transcripts, delves deeply into both Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership role and his private life. He attributes King's moral and physical courage to his religious faith: King believed that he had literally been called to do the Lord's work. But from 1965, when the F.B.I. taped King in sexual encounters and sent the tape to S.C.L.L. headquarters, his associates noted a "spiritual depression", even a "death wish." Fear that exposure would ruin his public work dogged him until his assassination in 1968. While documenting the F.B.I.'s dirty tricks, Garrow never loses sight of King's achievement and vision, nor of the poignancy of King's belief that "the cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."

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e Pulitzer Prize. Based on more than 700 recorded conversations, including interviews with all of King's closest surviving associates, this is a powerful portrait of King and the movement for which he dedicated himself.

About this edition

• Publisher: RH Canada UK Dist
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0099302608
• ISBN 13: 9780099302605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 800