Bringing History to Life with Jonathan Eig (Online Program)

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jonathan Eig discusses King: A Life, the first major biography of Martin Luther King Jr. in decades and the first to draw on declassified FBI files. Vivid and deeply researched, the book offers a powerful new portrait of the preacher and activist who transformed American race relations.

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