![]() ![]() But comparisons between KAL and BTC will be legion, so highlighting the three most significant ways in which the two biographies differ will be a service both to the thousands of readers whom Eig’s volume should attract and to students of King’s life more generally.įorty years ago, I took to heart something the civil rights icon Miss Ella Baker said just two months after King’s 1968 assassination: “The movement made Martin rather than Martin making the movement.” Thus BTC begins with the 1955 arrest of Mrs. One normally does not review a book one’s blurbed - I’ve called it “a great leap forward in our biographical understanding” - nor where one’s actively aided the author’s research and read his manuscript multiple times. Jonathan Eig’s new King: A Life ( KAL) is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years, and it will succeed my own Bearing the Cross ( BTC), published in 1986, as the standard account. ![]()
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