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Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) Book

Unheroic in appearance, given to "deacon-sober suits" and "ponderous gravity," Martin Luther King Jr. ushered in an epochal era of change in the United States. Closely watching King's journey from Montgomery to Birmingham to the Lincoln Memorial to Memphis was journalist Marshall Frady, who honors the minister's achievement and spirit in this lucid biography. "Almost a geological age ago, it seems now--that great moral saga of belief and violence that unfolded in the musky deeps of the South during the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties." So Frady opens his account, which traces King's transformation from withdrawn, unconfident child to eloquent champion of the oppressed, ever unafraid to trouble the waters. Frady explores King's conflicts, contradictions, and triumphs, as well as the great personal cost he bore in urging nonviolent change in a singularly violent time. Part of the excellent Penguin Lives series, this slender volume sheds much light on a prophet now honored, but still too little understood. --Gregory McNamee Read More

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    Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re- creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational leader. Deftly interweaving the story of King?s quest with a history of the African American struggle for equality, Frady offers fascinating insights into his subject?s magnetic character, with its mixture of piety and ambition. He explores the complexities of King?s relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBI?s J. Edgar Hoover, who conducted a relentless vendetta against him. The result is a biography that conveys not just the facts of King?s life but the power of his legacy.

  • 0143036483
  • 9780143036487
  • Marshall Frady
  • 27 December 2005
  • Penguin Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
  • Reprint
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