Martin Luther King, Jr. - Hardcover

Frady, Marshall

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ISBN 10: 0786238844 ISBN 13: 9780786238842

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2002

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A biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., interweaves a history of the civil rights movement with King's rise to fame.

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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 So Frady opens his account, which traces King's transformation from withdrawn, unconfident child to eloquent champion of the oppressed, ever unafraid to trouble the waters.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

About the Author:

Marshall Frady, a critically acclaimed biographer and veteran journalist, is the author of Wallace, a biography of George Wallace, and most recently of Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (a 1996 New York Times Notable Book, excerpted in The New Yorker). He has written for Nightline and for numerous publications, including Newsweek, Life, and Harper's, and been a host, chief writer, and award-winning correspondent for ABC News, where his pieces won many awards.

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