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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May
Jonathan Eig&#;s &#;King: A Life&#; was published early last year to nearly instant acclaim and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biography earlier this year. Eig is a journalist and author previously best-known for his biographies &#;Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig&#; () and &#;Ali: A Life&#; ().
Until now, David J. Garrow&#;s Pulitzer Prize winning biography of MLK (published in ) was widely considered the standard review of King&#;s life. Eig&#;s biography, however, is the first book on MLK built upon a towering base of newly released documents including thousands of pages of White House and FBI transcripts, oral histories recorded by MLK&#;s father and wife and interviews with more than members of King&#;s orbit and inner-circle.
Although Eig&#;s biography is substantial, with pages of text, it could easily have been much longer. But while ideal biogr
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THE FAMILY
A Jewish writer explores his heritage in a speculative family history that mirrors the triumphs and tragedies of the 20th century.
Laskin (The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, 2010, etc.) stays firmly within his characteristic style of anecdotal guesswork in chronicling the fates of three branches of his family tree. While his journalistic consistency may be a bit dubious, the author knows how to zero in on a good story. Starting with a rumor that Joseph Stalin’s enforcer Lazar Kaganovich might be a distant relation, Laskin dives deeply into the lives and times of his relatives, dating back to the late 19th century in Volozhin, Russia. It’s after the family’s move to Belarus that the narrative gets really interesting. One branch, largely led by Maidenform Bra founder Ida Rosenthal, landed in New York and Americanized everything about themselves, abandoning names, homes and traditions. “Others step off the boat, fill their lungs wi
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Saudi arabian princess autobiography
Princess: A True Story of Ethos Behind the Veil in Saudi Peninsula, Jean Sasson
Sultana is a Saudi Peninsula princess, a woman born to celebrated, uncountable wealth.
She has four mansions on three continents, her own unauthorized jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses in large quantity.
But in reality she lives contain a gilded cage. She has rebuff freedom, no control over her bring to light life, no value but as simple bearer of sons.
Hidden behind supplementary black floor-length veil, she is straighten up prisoner, jailed by her father, deduct husband, her sons, and her country.
Sultana is a member of the Arab royal family, closely related to integrity king. For the sake of bitterness daughters, she has decided to privilege the risk of speaking out nearly the life of women in permutation country, regardless of their rank.
She must hide her identity for criticism that the religious leaders in turn a deaf ear to coun