{"id":129455,"date":"2023-06-06T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=129455"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:00:59","slug":"square-books-presents-jonathan-eig-with-king-a-life-wednesday-june-7th-530-pm-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-presents-jonathan-eig-with-king-a-life-wednesday-june-7th-530-pm-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Presents Jonathan Eig with “King: A Life” Wednesday, June 7th, 5:30 pm at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Washington Post<\/em>, The Millions<\/em>, and Literary Hub<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig\u2019s King: A Life<\/em> is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.\u2014and 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\u2019s origins as well as MLK\u2019s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King <\/em>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\u2014as well as the nation\u2019s most mourned martyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history\u2019s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Eig<\/strong> is a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal.<\/em> He is the New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of five books, including Ali: A Life<\/em>, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig<\/em>, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season<\/em>. Ken Burns calls him “a master storyteller,” and Eig’s books have been listed among the best of the year by The Washington Post<\/em>, Chicago Tribune<\/em>, Sports Illustrated<\/em>, and Slate<\/em>. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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King: A Life<\/em><\/strong>
By Jonathan Eig
$35.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374279295<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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