King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig

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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan EigsKingis 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 thisrevelatory new portraitof the preacher and activist who shook the world, thebestselling biographergives us an intimate view of thecourageous and often emotionally troubledhuman being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.

He casts fresh light on the King familys origins as well as MLKs complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists.Kingreveals 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 whorecast American race relationsand became its onlymodern-day founding father as well asthe nations most mourned martyr.

In thislandmark biography, Eig gives usan MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of historys greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

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King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig

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