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WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY 
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
*SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King 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 wi

King

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      Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
      Published 21 December 2023
      ISBN-13 9781471181030
      978-1471181030
      ISBN-10 1471181030
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      Biography Biography: adventurers and explorers Politics, Philosophy & Society Human rights, civil rights Political activism / Political engagement

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY 
      A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
      *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*

      Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King 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 wi

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