King: A Life/Кинг. Жизнь (Джонатан Эйг)

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time

ANew York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023

One of The New Yorker’s essential reads of 2023 | A Christian Science Monitor best book of the year | One of Air Mail’s twelve best books of 2023

AWashington Post and national indie bestseller | One of Publishers Weekly’s best nonfiction books of 2023 | One of Smithsonian magazine’s ten best books of 2023

“Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig’s book is worthy of its subject.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

“[Кингis] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King’s life in a generation.” ―Mark Whitaker, The Washington Post

“No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig’s sweeping and majestic new Король . . . Eig has created 2023′s most vital tome.” ―Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Hailed by The New York Times as “the new definitive biography,” Кинг mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times.

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. Кингreveals 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.

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’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs
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Джонатан Эйг – Кинг. Жизнь

Самый убедительный рассказ о жизни Кинга за последнее поколение (The Washington Post)

Первая за последние десятилетия крупная биография иконы гражданских прав Мартина Лютера Кинга-младшего - и первая, в которую вошли недавно рассекреченные файлы ФБР.

Это не просто портрет проповедника, а взгляд на мужественного и эмоционально неспокойного человека, который требовал мирного протеста, но редко был в мире с самим собой. В книге много личного: сложные отношения МЛК с женой, отцом и коллегами. Перед нами священник, который боролся со своими человеческими слабостями и перепадами в настроении; гражданин, за которым охотилось правительство; человек, который был готов погибнуть в борьбе за справедливость.

Джонатан Эйг - известный американский журналист и биограф. Его предыдущая книга о жизни Мухаммеда Али была названа одной из величайших спортивных книг в истории.