King: A life

[ King .] Norsk

Oslo : Verbum , 2024

684 sider : 8 unummererte sider med plansjer

1. utgave

Martin Luther King jr. er et av det 20 århundres største ikoner.?Men hvem var han egentlig, pastoren, borgerrettsaktivisten og ikkevoldsforkjemperen som bare 35 år gammel mottok Nobels fredspris for så fire år senere å bli skutt og drept? I King: Et liv kaster den prisvinnende biografen Jonathan Eig nytt lys over Kings bemerkelsesverdige liv og karriere. Nylig nedgraderte FBI-dokumenter viser hvordan sterkt rasistiske holdninger preget den amerikanske regjeringens forsøk på å bringe King til taushet. Boken er basert på hundrevis av intervjuer og hittil utilgjengelige kilder. Den går bak fasaden og viser oss King som et feilbarlig menneske, men også som en skarp tenker og briljant strateg – en mann som ledet en av historiens største frihetsbevegelser og for alltid vil bli husket for ordene: «Jeg har en drøm!». - The first full biography in decades, 'King' mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times" -- "Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.;and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father;as well as the nation's most mourned martyr. In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Biografi . - Fagbøker . - BIO . - Biografiar . - Biografier . - Biografisk

Forente stater - Historie . - United States - Race relations - History

973.923 . - BI 323.1196092 King,M.L. . - [Bestilt] . - 921 . - 323.092 KIN (hovednummer). - 323 E . - 323.092 King, M. L. . - 323.092E . - 323.4 . - Biografi K . - Vaksen Fag - Biografi 323.092 KIN . - 323.092 . - biografi King,M.L.

978-82-543-1575-0(innbundet) : Nkr 549.00