King - The Life of Martin Luther King

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is 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 revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us 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 and became its only modern-day founding father – as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr. In this landmark biography , Eig gives us an MLK for our times : a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

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'Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable ... The first comprehensive biography of King in three decades... and it supplants David J. Garrow's 1986 biography Bearing the Cross as the definitive life of King ... [Eig's is] a clean, clear, journalistic voice, one that employs facts the way Saul Bellow said they should be employed, each a wire that sends a current ... Eig's book is worthy of its subject' New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Eig, Eig Jonathan
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781471181030
• ISBN: 978-1-4711-8103-0
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political activism, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, c 1954 to c 1968 (era of the American Civil Rights Movement), Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1945 To C 1960, Political activism / Political engagement, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice