cover image Bearing the Cross

Bearing the Cross

David J. Garrow. Vintage Books USA, $18 (800pp) ISBN 978-0-394-75623-3

Garrow (Protest at Selma), who teaches political science at the City College of New York, draws on 700 interviews and King's personal papers to depict the man's strength and vision as well as his failings and fears. PW noted that the book stresses King's ""philosophy of nonviolent resistance, coupled with love and tempered by realism.'' (January)