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The sweeping and majestic new biography "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig has been hailed by The New York Times as "the new definitive biography" of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. This landmark work, which includes recently declassified FBI files, offers a revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world.

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Eig's biography provides an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement, yet was rarely at peace with himself. The bestselling biographer 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 Eig follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, he 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.

Hailed as "infused with the narrative energy of a thriller" by The Washington Post, this biography is "the most compelling account of King's life in a generation." The New York Times praised it as "supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable," and declared that "Eig's book is worthy of its subject."

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. His demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

The book has been widely acclaimed, named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time, as well as one of The New Yorker's essential reads, a Christian Science Monitor best book, and one of Air Mail's twelve best books of the year. It is a New York Times bestseller, a national indie bestseller, and one of Publishers Weekly's best nonfiction books of 2023.

Eig's sweeping and majestic new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is a must-read, offering a revelatory and timely portrait of this legendary civil rights leader. With its accessible storytelling and revelatory new research, "King: A Life" is set to become the definitive biography of our era.

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