SIGNED/FIRST ED/PULITZER Martin Luther King A Life, Jonathan Eig (2023 HCDJ) VG
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, IN-PERSON AT 2024 KENTUCKY BOOK FESTIVAL. WINNER OF 2024 PULITZER PRIZE.
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY. Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by. S twelve best books of 2023.
Magazine's ten best books of 2023. Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable. Eig's book is worthy of its subject. Is infused with the narrative energy of a thriller.
The most compelling account of King's life in a generation. No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig's sweeping and majestic new. Eig has created 2023's most vital tome.As "the new definitive biography, ". Mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's. 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. 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. 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. Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.