By Jonathan Eig. Hailed by the New York Times as "the new definitive biography," King mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times.
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, King: A Life is the first major biography in decades on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled King who demanded peaceful protest but was rarely at peace with himself. This biography 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.
In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 16, 2023), English, 688 pages
About the Author
Jonathan Eig is a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Ali: A Life, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season,
