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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May
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&#; () and &#;Ali: A Life&#; ().
Until now, David J. Garrow&#;s Pulitzer Prize winning biography of MLK (published in ) 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 members of King&#;s orbit and inner-circle.
Although Eig&#;s biography is substantial, with pages of text, it could easily have been much longer. But while ideal biographies are generally a judicious balance of colorful, eloquent prose and incisive, penetrating history, Eig has largely eschewed the former in favor of a searing focus on the latter: on King&#;s persona, the daunting challenges of his time, and the resulting cause-and-effect.
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