01594nam a22001697a 4500 20260509102609.0 9780374279295 323.092 Eig, Jonathan King a life New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023 x, 669 pages illustrations ; 25 cm Includes index 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. Martin Luther King Jr.; Civil rights movements—United States—Biography BK 11485 11485 0 0 0 0 U001 U001 Biography 2026-05-09 55.00 0 323.92JON UR010247 2026-05-09 10:28:20 2026-05-09 BK