The first book I finished in 2026 was Jonathan Eig’s biography of Martin Luther King Jr. I couldn’t have predicted how deeply it would move me.
Eig refuses to flatten King into a symbol or slogan. He shows King’s greatness and his shortcomings, including the depression he experienced after the height of the civil rights movement gave way to something murkier, as doubts about nonviolence grew and resistance to civil rights hardened.
What struck me most is that even in those darker years, King continued to speak in the language of calling.
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