{"product_id":"book-jxa1","title":"King of the North","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. \u003cem\u003eKing of the North\u003c\/em\u003e follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the media, and the federal government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn this bold retelling, King emerges as someone who not only led a movement but 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing of the North\u003c\/em\u003e speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today. Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands our understanding of King’s life and work—a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Just when you thought you knew everything about MLK, Jeanne Theoharis comes along and proves you wrong. Within these gripping pages we meet a public King who is well aware of northern racism and is concerned with addressing it throughout his public ministry.”\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eLerone Martin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49646000472368,"sku":"BDjxa1","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":50167044079920,"sku":"ZEjxa1","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":50167044112688,"sku":"ZMjxa1","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/jxa1-cover.jpg?v=1758680999","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-jxa1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}