An Instant New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller "Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable. Eig's book is worthy of its subject." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice " King is 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 King ...Eig has created 2023 8242,s most vital tome." - Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer Hailed by the New York Times as "the new definitive biography," King 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.