Join the Library and Politics and Prose bo okstore for a special conversation with Jonathan Eig\, author of King: A Life. In conversation with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton\, Eig will discus s his new biography of Martin Luther King Jr.\, the first major biography of the iconic civil rights leader in over a decade. \;
\nFollowi ng the discussion\, copies of the book will be available for sale and sign ature. A limited number of copies will be given away for free courtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation. \;
\n\nAbout the book:
\nVividly written and exhaustively researc hed\, 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 portra it of the preacher and activist who shook the world\, the bestselling biog rapher gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally t roubled 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 o rigins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife\, father\, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human fr ailties and dark moods\, a citizen hunted by his own government\, and a ma n determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the d eath. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham\, Selma\, and Memphis\, Eig dramatically re-creates the journe y of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-d ay founding father--as well as the nation's most mourned martyr. In this l andmark 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 gr eatest movements\, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remai n as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.
\nAbout the Author:
\nJonathan Eig is a former senior writer for The Wa ll Street Journal. He is the New York Times bestselling author of five boo ks\, including \;Ali: A Life\, \;Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig\, and \;Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's Firs t Season. Ken Burns calls him "a master storyteller\," and Eig's books hav e been listed among the best of the year by \;The Washington Post\,&nb sp\;Chicago Tribune\, \;Sports Illustrated\, and \;Slate. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
\nAbout Congresswoma n Norton:
\nCongresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has served as congresswoman for the District of Columbia since 1991\, and is the Chai r of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. She came to Congress as a national figure who was the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Emplo yment Opportunity Commission\, as well as a civil rights and feminist lead er\, tenured professor of law\, and board member at three Fortune 500 comp anies. The Congresswoman is a third-generation Washingtonian\, and her wor k for full congressional voting representation and for full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia continues her lifelong struggle for universal human and civil rights.
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