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King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
5.0

Perhaps the best book of 2023. Jonathan Eig paints a fuller, more nuanced portrait of MLK Jr.. Relying on previously unreleased wiretaps from the FBI, Eig is able to give more details on MLK’s thoughts surrounding the major civil rights milestones of his day - Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago and Memphis - with moving prose and great emotion. The book doesn’t sugarcoat his shortcomings or the corruption of Hoover’s FBI. A truly remarkable biography.

And Dion Graham’s narration is so good, so powerful it will move the reader to tears.