Bearing the Cross - Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership

Informationen zum Autor David J. Garrow is Professor of Law & History and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the author of four books, including  Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is a regular contributor to the  Washington Post ,  New York Times , and  The American Prospect . He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Klappentext Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's access to King's personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents, this is a towering portrait of a man's metamorphosis into a legend. Zusammenfassung Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award! this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King! Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving associates! as well as with those who opposed him! and enhanced by the author's access to King's personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents! this is a towering portrait of a man's metamorphosis into a legend.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Garrow, David J. Garrow
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.01.2004
• EAN: 9780060566920
• ISBN: 978-0-06-056692-0
• Seiten: 800
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 203 mm x 51 mm
• Serien: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics; William Morrow & Company
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, RELIGION: Christianity / History, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology of Religion, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY & BIO, RELIGION: Faith