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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 span of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. David J. Garrow had unrestricted usage of Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents, and more than 700 interviews with King's closest friends and enemies.
Garrow traces King's transformation from the young pastor of an modest church in to the foremost spokesperson of the Civil Rights Movement. The book's unifying theme is King's growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross, as his sense of personal mission deepened into an acceptance of an life that would demand the best sacrifice. That is a robust portrait of a man at the epicenter of 1 of the very most dramatic periods inside our history.
