King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
688 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 2023

Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” 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” (2005) and “Ali: A Life” (2017).

Until now, David J. Garrow’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography of MLK was 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 and interviews with more than 200 members of King’s orbit and inner-circle.

While ideal biographies are generally a judicious balance of colorful, eloquent prose and incisive, penetrating history, Eig has…

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