King : a life
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
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African American Baptists -- Clergy -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 669 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-632) and index.
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life 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 our only modern-day founding father--as well as the nation's most mourned martyr"--Dust jacket flap.