King: A Life
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
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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 |
Dimensions | 6.5 x 9.5 x 2 in. |
ISBN | 9780374279295 |