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Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator

This program is narrated by Dion Graham narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards

Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook emulating the majestic cadence of Dr Martin Luther King Jrs speeches He captures the Civil Rights leaders deep resonant tone deliberate ministerial intonation and during offstage moments his worldweariness The result is a monumental biography performed exquisitely by a Golden Voice narrator AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner

This gripping biography of a revolutionary leader flies by Listeners interested in a new perspective of Martin Luther King Jrs life will be captivatedLibrary Journal

King is a major achievement With eloquence compassion and grace Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully humanand humaneKing A resounding triumph Peniel E Joseph author of The Sword and the Shield

Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle Here is the King we know think we know and ought to know Here is the leader the preacher the orator the husband the father the martyr the human beingnot with melodramatic halo in place but in all his heroic tragic Glory Hallelujah Ken Burns

Named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Washington Post The Millions and Literary Hub

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

Vividly written and exhaustively researched Jonathan Eigs King A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jrand 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 familys origins as well as MLKs 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 recreates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modernday founding fatheras well as the nations 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 historys greatest movements and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus and Giroux