King of the North

From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of MLK

highlights the book's "stellar" writing, and reveals that King of the North "makes a persuasive case that Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign for racial justice has been significantly misrepresented."

In this bold retelling, "Theoharis depicts a complex, radical King whose fight against Northern racism alternately inspires and infuriates" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). King emerges here as someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people's struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who-despite his flaws-depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.

In a book Democracy Now! calls "a major reexamination of the civil rights leader," King of the Northspeaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today.