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King: A Life

byJonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig presents Martin Luther King Jr. as a brilliant, flawed, evolving leader rather than a monument frozen in one speech. Drawing on newly available records, including FBI material, he follows King's family, faith, education, marriage, organizing, strategic conflicts, antiwar stance, economic vision, and final campaign. The biography confronts government surveillance and personal infidelity without allowing them to eclipse his courage or intellectual growth. Eig shows how King navigated movement pressure, white resistance, and his own limitations while expanding the meaning of justice far beyond legal desegregation.

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

669

ISBN

9780374279295