David J Garrow: 5 books
MLK: An American Legacy
Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
**Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.,...
Protest at Selma
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the Cross
Vivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow’s account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma,...
Liberty and Sexuality
The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow’s stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America’s battle for the right to choose
In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue...
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
From "Solo" to Memphis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government’s massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader
When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.’s phones by...
Bearing the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King’s evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama,...