Bearing the Cross - Martin Luther King Jr - David J. Garrow - 1986 First Edition

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow.

A remarkable, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that follows Martin Luther King Jr. through the defining years of the American civil rights movement, from the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 to his assassination in Memphis in 1968.

Drawing on interviews with more than 700 people, King's papers and extensive FBI records, Garrow explores not only the familiar historic moments but also the political struggles, internal disagreements, personal pressures and difficult decisions behind the movement.

The book covers Montgomery, the Freedom Rides, Birmingham, the March on Washington, Selma, the Nobel Peace Prize, opposition to the Vietnam War, Black Power and the Poor People's Campaign.

Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is a substantial and highly regarded work of modern American history.

Original 1986 William Morrow US First Edition, First Printing, with the complete 1–10 number line.

Hardback with original dust jacket.

Good vintage condition. The book is internally very presentable for its age. The dust jacket shows rubbing, edge and corner wear, with some small tears and creasing, as photographed.

An interesting copy for readers of Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights history and collectors of first-edition historical biographies.

Collection available in Gorey, Co. Wexford, or postage anywhere in Ireland at the buyer's expense.