American Jesus: A Conversation with Jonathan Eig about his Groundbreaking New Biography of MLK
The New York Times best-selling author and “master storyteller” eases into a chair to discuss his latest project, a 688-page epic on the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For six years Eig transformed himself into something more than a biographer. Combing through previously unreleased documents of King’s life to present the martyr as someone who is far greater—and more complex—than the dream he once told the world he had.