A\u00c2\u00a0NEW YORK TIMES<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0BESTSELLER<\/b><\/p>\n
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s\u00c2\u00a0King<\/i> 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. <\/b>
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In this revelatory new portrait <\/b>of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer<\/b> gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled<\/b> 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.\u00c2\u00a0King\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government<\/b>, 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<\/b> and became its only modern-day founding father<\/b> – as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.<\/b><\/p>\n
In this landmark biography<\/b>, Eig gives us an MLK for our times<\/b>: 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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The first full biography in decades,\u00c2\u00a0King<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[641],"product_tag":[492],"class_list":["post-101339","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-biography","product_tag-biography-historical-political-military","pa_book_author-eig-jonathan","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-323-092-edition23","pa_imprint-simon-schuster-uk-ltd","pa_language-english","pa_pages-16677","pa_publisher-simon-schuster-uk-ltd","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n