King: a life
(CD Audiobook)
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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 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 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.
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Eig, J., & Graham, D. (2023). King: a life. Unabridged. New York, Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eig, Jonathan and Dion, Graham. 2023. King: A Life. New York, Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eig, Jonathan and Dion, Graham, King: A Life. New York, Macmillan Audio, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eig, Jonathan, and Dion Graham. King: A Life. Unabridged. New York, Macmillan Audio, 2023.
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