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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
The first major King biography in decades, with new FBI files and interviews: his doubts, affairs, depression, and greatness intact. Humane and definitive.
Read it if…
you want the current best single-volume King.
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Skip it if…
you want hagiography.
Try instead: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention →
Three things you will actually use
- Greatness coexists with flaws.
- Exhaustion is the cost.
- Keep going anyway.
Do this first
Read the final year.
Our verdict
King, fully human.
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