Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS |
Items
Details
Author
Title
King : a life / Jonathan Eig.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Copyright
©2023
Description
x, 669 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-632) and index.
Call Number
Non-Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9780374279295 (hardcover)
0374279292 (hardcover)
0374279292 (hardcover)
Record Appears in