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Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marshall Frady

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Life

A Life

By Marshall Frady

By Marshall Frady

By Marshall Frady

By Marshall Frady

By Marshall Frady
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By Marshall Frady
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Dec 27, 2005 | ISBN 9780143036487

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    About Martin Luther King, Jr.

    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.

    About Martin Luther King, Jr.

    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.

    About Martin Luther King, Jr.

    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.

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    About Marshall Frady

    A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady has been a journalist for more than 25 years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent for Newsweek, then for Life, Harper’s, Esquire, The New York Review of… More about Marshall Frady

    About Marshall Frady

    A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady has been a journalist for more than 25 years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent for Newsweek, then for Life, Harper’s, Esquire, The New York Review of… More about Marshall Frady

    About Marshall Frady

    A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady has been a journalist for more than 25 years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent for Newsweek, then for Life, Harper’s, Esquire, The New York Review of… More about Marshall Frady

    Product Details

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 27, 2005 | 224 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-1/18 | ISBN 9780143036487

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 27, 2005 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9781101221396

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Domestic Politics | Religion | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Dec 26, 2001 | 450 Minutes | ISBN 9781415911716

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    Praise

    “Just the introductory chapter… is worth a good nineteenths of all the literature the movement produced or inspired.” —Arkansas Times

    “Commendable… An excellent introduction to that man who was King.” —Los Angeles Times

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