Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. So we just launched this year's

books we love NPR's guide to our favorite books this year. And going through this thing,

a lot of fascinating people were the subjects of biographies. You know, you got Lou Reed,

Ella Fitzgerald, Vince McMahon, Madonna. But biographer Jonathan Iig took on what is

probably one of the most difficult jobs in the game, writing a new and interesting biography of

Martin Luther King Jr. A figure who looms so large in our culture that it can be difficult to see

him as just a guy, you know, as a person.

And that was Igg's goal to really get into all the parts that made King human.

And in this interview with NPR Steve Inskeep, he talks about King's complicated relationship with his father.

Because what could be more human than not get along with your folks?

That's in a minute.

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you get your podcasts. The life of Martin Luther King is one of the most famous in American history,

but in that life one thing is easy to overlook. How young he was, King became a nationally known

civil rights leader in his mid-20s.

When he gave the famous I Have a Dream speech in Washington in 1963, he was in his early 30s,

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