04417cam a2200565 i 4500 1178364214 TxAuBib 20240329120000.0 221125s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022056721 9780374279295 hardcover 0374279292 hardcover (OCoLC)1345220065 TxAuBib rda Eig, Jonathan,. King : a life / Jonathan Eig. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. ©2023. x, 669 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-632) and index. Prologue -- (Part I) The Kings of Stockbridge -- Martin Luther -- Sweet Auburn -- "Black America still wears chains" -- The open curtain -- "A sense of responsibility" -- The seminarian -- "Madly, madly in love" -- The match -- The dynamic force -- Plagiarism and poetry -- Gideon's army -- "A precipitating factor" -- "My soul is free" -- "We ain't rabbit no more" -- A warning -- (Part II) Alabama's Moses -- "I'm glad you didn't sneeze" -- The pilgrimage -- Leaving Montgomery -- "Kennedy to the rescue!" -- The new Emancipation Proclamation -- Temptation and surveillance -- "The stuff is just in 'em" -- Birmingham jail -- (Part III): The dream, part one -- The dream, part two -- "The most dangerous negro" -- Man of the year -- A law observance problem -- The prize -- The director -- A new sense of "some-bodiness" -- Crowbar -- Selma -- "The true meaning of my work" -- "A shining moment" -- Burning -- Beware the day -- Chicago -- Black Power -- "I hope King gets it" -- "Not an easy time for me" -- A revolution of values -- Please come to Memphis -- Epilogue. "The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"-- Provided by publisher. "Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life 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 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"--Dust jacket flap. 20240329. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. fast King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. fast 1900-1999. African American civil rights workers Biography. Civil rights workers United States Biography. African Americans Biography. African Americans Civil rights History 20th century. Civil rights movements United States History 20th century. African American Baptists Clergy Biography. African American civil rights workers. fast African Americans. fast African Americans fast Civil rights. Civil rights movements. fast Civil rights workers. fast Race relations. fast Clergy. fast African American Baptists. fast United States Race relations History 20th century. United States. fast Biographies. fast History. fast