02670cam a2200385 i 4500 805807166 TxAuBib 20230523120000.0 221125s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022056721 9780374279295 hardcover 0374279292 hardcover (OCoLC)1345220065 TXAAL eng rda TXAAL TxAuBib rda Eig, Jonathan. King : a life / Jonathan Eig. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. ©2023. x, 669 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-632) and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. "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"--Dust jacket flap. 20230523. King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-1968. African American civil rights workers Biography. Civil rights workers United States Biography. African Americans Biography. United States Race relations History 20th century. Biographies. TXAAL