King
The Life of Martin Luther King
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Product details:
- Publisher Simon & Schuster UK
- Date of Publication 21 December 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781471181030
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages688 pages
- Size 197x129x40 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 1x16pp mono 1012
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Short description:
The first full biography in decades,&&&160;King&&&160;mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.
Long description:
WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY&&&160;
A&&&160;NEW YORK TIMES&&&160;BESTSELLER
*SELECTED AS ONE OF&&&160;&&&160;BARACK&&&160;OBAMA&&&39;S&&&160;FAVOURITE BOOKS OF&&&160;2023*
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s&&&160;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.
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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.
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He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists.&&&160;King&&&160;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.
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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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&&&39;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&&&39;
