King: A Life ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
by Eig, Jonathan
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0374279292
- ISBN 13
- 9780374279295
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EXTRAORDINARILY SCARCE SIGNED! Pulitzer Prize Winner! FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Brand new, never read. Personally hand signed by the author directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig s book is worthy of its subject. Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[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 Named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The Millions, and Literary Hub 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. He casts fresh light on the King family s origins as well as MLK s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals 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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- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 690
- Title
- King: A Life ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Eig, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0374279292
- ISBN 13
- 9780374279295
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, biography, civil rights, MLK, black voices, racial equity, memphis, birmingham, selma, ali
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