Hugh Pearson

Title: Memorials of the Church and Parish of Sonning ... Reprinted from the Parish Magazine, and revised, together with a memoir of the writer, by W. R. W. Stephens ... Illustrated by A. Y. Nutt. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Pearson, Hugh; Stephens, William Richard Wood; 1890. xliii. 237 p.; 8 . 010352.g.16.

"Deftly recreates the political reformism, high-maintenance egos, and petulant jealousies that . . . remain prevalent in this nation's sociopolitical psyche."--"Boston Globe""When Harlem Nearly Killed King "spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.--how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon. In Pearson's hands, the life-threatening episode becomes, in a sense, a mortal danger to the soul of a nation struggling against wave after wave of crisis. Hugh Pearson is a former editorial page writer at "The Wall Street Journal."

"When Harlem Nearly Killed King tells the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - how, in 1958, King was stabbed by an emotionally disturbed woman in Harlem, and then saved by a team of Harlem Hospital's surgeons. The incident occurs in the wake of the 1956 Supreme Court decision to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, after the year-long boycott - a triumph for King. Pearson unearths the political power play between N. Y. gubernatorial candidates W. Averell Harriman and Nelson Rockefeller vying for the Black vote, between King's surgeons jousting for credit, and among Harlem's leading figures of the day seeking to roll out a red carpet for King." As Pearson captures the historical moment, in the Northern cities many of the ideas of racial equality were still just that - ideas, symbols, not yet facts of life. In Pearson's hands, the 1958 life-threatening episode becomes, in a sense, a mortal danger to the very soul of a nation attempting to put racism behind it. With his unique understanding of the nature of the American experience, Pearson recreates America at the dawn of the civil rights movement and shows us how change really occurs: painfully, not in one grand gesture, but in a thousand small and contradictory ways. There emerges a powerful portrait of change in race perspectives in America, one that suggests there is still work to be done.