656 reviews for:

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.64 AVERAGE

pamdemerle's review

5.0

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

peterjwhite's review

4.5

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

slc54hiwi's review

3.5

medium-paced

janaeam's review

5.0

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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I’ve read this biography twice because it’s such an amazing work that tells the story of the fullness of the life of MLK. I loved that the author set out to tell his life story from every angle and not just watered down version that most of us have been told since his assassination. I think even in talking about MLK’s flaws as a man, husband, father and leader that the author was very gracious to not paint in an unforgiving light, but is a complexity that we all have. While I enjoy reading about history so also didn’t find the book overly tedious to read because while there was a lot of information it was written in a way to put his humanity first. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

carson_james303's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

uzisuzi's review

5.0

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

brookeunderthebridge's review

5.0

informative inspiring

elliejmatthews's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring sad slow-paced

meggersrad's review

3.5

informative slow-paced

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This book is truly the most complete book of King’s life. It’s absolutely informative, and portrays a side of King we were not privy to. One that is certainly flawed in many ways. As are humans as a whole. I will say if you want to keep King on a moral pedestal this may not be the read for you. 

amydobrzynski's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative slow-paced