The title page also bears the (crossed-out) signature of Samuel Bishop (1723?–1803), the book's first owner, who served as mayor of New Haven, chief judge of the county probate court, justice of the peace, town clerk, and Collector of the Port of New Haven.
Consider Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the subject an 800-page Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Bearing The Cross, back in 1987, which was quickly dwarfed by Taylor Branch's definitive 1,088 page 1989 effort, Parting the Waters.
"Bearing the Cross" was nominated by the history jury as one of three finalists in that category.
David J. Garrow, author of "Bearing the Cross," a biography of Dr. King, said someone who supported segregation in 1962 was not immoral.
Here, Ms. LaVette no longer has to bear the cross of being one of soul music's great unknown singers.
And yet I know in my heart that we are not the only ones to bear the cross of bigotry and hate.
(The response, notes David J. Garrow, in his 1986 history of the civil rights movement, "Bearing the Cross," was considerably louder than that after Mr. Jackson's death).
Some of this material is covered in earlier books like Branch's trilogy and David Garrow's "Bearing the Cross" (1986), both staggering achievements of research and reporting.
