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Book SynopsisWINNER 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
