TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eig,Jonathan
TI  - King: a life 
SN  - 9781250335647
AV  - 002 E 185.97 K53E 2025
U1  - 323.092 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 
KW  - King, Martin Luther, 
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Afroamericanos
KW  - Derechos civiles
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - United States
KW  - Trabajadores de los derechos civiles
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Movimientos de derechos civiles
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - African American Baptists
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Relaciones raciales
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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." --
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