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Book excerpt: King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Por: CBS News Entertainment June 04, 2023

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. For this latest biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Eig, a former Wall Street Journal senior writer and author of such books as Ali: A Life, draws upon more than 200 interviews and previously-unseen FBI documents to create an even deeper study of the civil rights leader's upbringing and mission. In this excerpt from... + full article



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