Bibliograph

King, a life, Jonathan Eig

Type

Label

King, a life, Jonathan Eig

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

King

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1345220065

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Eig

Sub title

a life

Summary

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, Jonathan Eig 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. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification