Bøger af Jonathan Eig

Martin Luther King Jr. var den modige leder af den amerikanske borgerrettighedsbevægelse, men i dag er det kun de færreste, der kender mere til ham end hans fire simple ord: “I have a dream”.Som det så ofte sker, når vi kommer til at gøre virkelighedens helte til superhelte og forenkler betydningsfulde mænd og kvinders liv i et forsøg på at sammenfatte den lektie, de forsøgte at lære os, mister vi deres storhed af syne. Så formår vi ikke at ære dem som virkelige mennesker, der opnåede virkelige resultater. Denne fejl er vi så småt ved at begå med Martin Luther King. Tiden er derfor rigtig til at kaste et frisk blik på hans liv, og behovet for det er presserende: Tusinder af tidligere ukendte dokumenter har set dagens lys, og mange af Kings venner, følgere og fortrolige har været ivrige efter at fortælle. Og dem, som stadig kan give førstehåndsberetninger, nærmer sig det punkt i deres liv, hvor de skal høres nu, hvis ikke deres historier skal være tabt for altid.Bogen om King er et omfattende portræt af den ikoniske figur, der dykker ned i og yder retfærdighed til nogle af hans radikale visioner og den betydning han har haft. Bogen kaster ikke blot nyt lys over Kings bemærkelsesværdige karriere, men humaniserer ham på en måde, der gør ham til mere end blot et symbol på håb og trods, men også til en fejlbarlig mand, en humoristisk mand, en familiefar og en ægtemand.

The first truly definitive biography of Muhammad Ali, the most iconic and significant sporting figure of the twentieth century

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller | An Obama Summer Reading List Pick"Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig's book is worthy of its subject." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Editors' Choice)"[King is] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King's life in a generation." -Mark Whitaker, The Washington Post"No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig's sweeping and majestic new King . . . Eig has created 2023's most vital tome." -Will Bunch, The Philadelphia InquirerHailed by The New York Times as "the new definitive biography," King mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK 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.Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs

Lola's grandfather does the best pigtails ever. But her principal isn't so sure.

In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His name was Gregory Pincus. In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded. Together, these four determined men and women changed the world.Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, The Birth of the Pillis a gripping account of a remarkable cultural, social and scientific journey