"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, [Eig] gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who championed peaceful protest but was rarely at peace with himself. Eig casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as King's complex relationships with his wife, his father, and his fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his 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"--Dust jacket flap.
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