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SELECTED AS ONE OFBARACKOBAMASFAVOURITE BOOKS OF2023

Vividly written and exhaustively researched Jonathan EigsKing 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 familys origins as well as MLKs complex relationships with his wife father and fellow activistsKingreveals 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 its only modernday founding father as 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