NEWS & REVIEWS

"Jonathan Eig’s magnificent new biography is an overdue attempt to grapple with King in all his complexity. His book will inevitably draw...

David Garrow writes in The Spectator that King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig, will succeed Garrow's own Bearing the Cross as the standard...

I reviewed Leta McCollough Seletzky's fascinating book about her father's role as a police informant during the civil rights movement....

"A must for readers interested in moving beyond clichéd catchphrases to see a more complete and complex King..." Read the full review here.

Eig (Ali, 2017) has a dream that Americans will remember more about our most famous civil rights icon than one, partially improvised...

Here's the Kirkus review of King: Definitive life of the champion of civil rights. Having placed Muhammad Ali in the canon of civil...

"[A] sweeping biography. Eig gives a rousing recap of King’s triumphs as a civil rights leader . . . [A] complex, nuanced portrait . . ....

Thank you, Mary Wisniewski and NEW CITY, for the kind write-up ... Just when you think Jonathan Eig can't possibly top his last...

"KING: A Life" was just included in BookPage's 2023 preview: Most anticipated nonfiction. "Among these 33 nonfiction books we can’t wait...

Jonathan Eig reviews The Sword and the Shield, Peniel Joseph's book on King and Malcolm X for The Wall Street Journal. Fool. Chump....

Originally published in "The Times" Jonathan Eig’s comprehensive biography of Muhammad Ali fought off stiff competition last night to win...