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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Written by Marshall Frady

Narrated by Marshall Frady

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Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re-creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational leader. Deftly interweaving the story of King's quest with a history of the African American struggle for equality, Frady offers fascinating insights into his subject's magnetic character, with its mixture of piety and ambition. He explores the complexities of King's relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, who conducted a relentless vendetta against him. The result is a biography that conveys not just the facts of King's life but the power of his legacy.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 26, 2001
ISBN9781415911716
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Marshall Frady

A native of South Carolina, Marshall Frady was a journalist for more than twenty-five years, writing for Newsweek, Life, Harper's, Esquire, The New York Review of Books, The Sunday Times of London, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He was a correspondent on Nightline; chief writer and host of ABC News' Closeup, for which he won two Emmys and the duPont-Columbia Award; and the author of six books: Wallace; Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage Through the Middle East; Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness; Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson; and Martin Luther King Jr. (The Penguin Lives Series). He died in 2004.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Learned some hidden events about Dr King that I had not heard before (we are all able to make mistakes and when we put leaders above average humanity we will discover they have faults)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Just finished the book and was taken back by the two previous reviews that to me seem extremely uncharitable. "A life" is a very solid book. I would heartily recommend it to anyone that is interested in good, concise introduction to Martin Luther King, Jr. While I agree that e.g. King's promiscuous lifestyle and the plagiarization in his doctoral dissertation were rushed over, I don't think the deeper delving would have fitted this very short bio that is basically about his impact on civil rights movement in USA.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I’d like to suggest a good read. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (2002) by Marshall Frady is one of the Penguin Lives biography series books. Nearly all of these books are excellent short bios, well worth a few hours. The series contains numerous cultural greats. The list includes people such as Andy Warhol, Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Smith, Elvis Presley, Mao Zedong, Napoleon and Buddha. Marshall Frady’s book offers a splendid and lively summary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s. life and work. The series is simply wonderful.Born in 1940 in Augusta, Georgia to a Southern Baptist pastor, Marshall Frady became a journalist. He worked for Newsweek and the Saturday Evening Post. Also, as a television journalist, he received an Emmy for a documentary about mercenaries, Soldiers of the Twilight. Frady died of cancer on March 9, 2004. Jessie Jackson presided over the memorial service and soon afterwards the IRS swept in to collect on a $200,000 debt. His papers were later purchased by Emory University for $10,000. The book received glowing reviews from magazines, newspapers and journals, however not on Library Thing. This review should be considered positive because I thoroughly enjoyed the read and was impressed by the author’s tragic and epic stylistic approach. He set the atmosphere in the use of vocabulary and tempo. Brilliant book taking the reader from the early life to the tragic death of a great American personality. I highly recommend this book as an intro to King. I must admit, I had never read a full book on this topic or the Civil Rights movement. This is a good first. Indeed the read actually caused me to reflect on my failure to appreciate and learn about this topic in American history. Shame on me.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I cannot believe Penguin published such a poorly written book. Worst book I have read in many years. The author goes out of his way to flaunt his extensive vocabulary (or more likely, that he owns a thesaurus). More importantly, he gives a pass to King's numerous extra-marital affairs and to the plagiarism of his doctoral dissertation. King is a complex and important figure. A good biography helps the reader to deal with the good and the bad -- not to overstate the good and downplay the bad. I chose this book only because I assumed that Penguin would publish a strong biography of King. I will be more selective in the future.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Found this biography as a Half-Price Bookstore, and figured that since I couldn't find King's autobiography, I'd try this one out first. Although I learned a lot, I must confess that I had a lot of trouble finishing this book. And it's not the subject or the content's fault: it's the author's. Frady seems to grate on my nerves; he uses five dollar words when a one-dollar word will suffice, and it just seems like he unnecessarily complicates things that don't need to be. But at least he puts plenty of King's quotes in the book, and I've always loved to read what he wrote.