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King: A Life

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

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As New. Signed by the author on a laid-in bookplate. Gentle shelf wear. Unmarked interior. Includes dust jacket. Compare at $180-$350 elsewhere. 

Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life was the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives the reader an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations.

Language English
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date 2023
Pages 669
Dimensions6.5 x 9.5 x 2 in.
ISBN 9780374279295

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