Richard Brody reviews the 1994 documentary “Freedom on My Mind,” directed by Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford, about the 1963 civil-rights campaign in Mississippi.
The New York Times best-selling author and “master storyteller” eases into a chair to discuss his latest project, a 688-page epic on the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For six years Eig transformed himself into something more than a biographer. Combing through previously unreleased documents of King’s life to present the martyr as someone who is far greater and more complex than the dream he once told the world he had.
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