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1538115921 pdf "[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review In this new biography, distinguished historian Paul Harvey examines Martin Luther Kings life through his complex, emerging religious lives. Harvey introduces many readers, perhaps for the first or only time, to the King of diverse religious and intellectual influences, of an increasingly radical cast of thought, and of a mlange of intellectual influences that he aligned in becoming the spokesperson for the most important social movement of twentieth-century American history. Not only does Harvey chronicle Kings metamorphosis and its impact on American and African American life, but he seeks to explain his afterliveshow in American culture King became transformed into a mainstream civil saint, shorn of his radical religious critique of how power functioned in America. Harveys concise biography will allow readers to see King anew in the context of his time and today.