King a life jonathan eig
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King a life jonathan eig
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
688 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 2023
Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” was published early last year to nearly instant acclaim and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biography earlier this year.
Eig is a journalist and author previously best-known for his biographies “Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig” (2005) and “Ali: A Life” (2017).
Until now, David J. Garrow’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography of MLK (published in 1986) was widely considered the standard review of King’s life.
Eig’s biography, however, is the first book on MLK built upon a towering base of newly released documents including thousands of pages of White House and FBI transcripts, oral histories recorded by MLK’s father and wife and interviews with more than 200 members of King’s orbit and inner-circle.
Although Eig’s biography is subst