

One normally does not review a book one’s blurbed - I’ve called it “a great leap forward in our biographical understanding” - nor where one’s actively aided the author’s research and read his manuscript multiple times.

Jonathan Eig’s new King: A Life ( KAL) is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years, and it will succeed my own Bearing the Cross ( BTC), published in 1986, as the standard account.
