Frady's biography (Penguin Group, 224 pp) presents a fresh take on the life of the civil rights leader for the new millennium (the book was released in 2005), addressing recent questions about possible plagiarism by King and the issue of King's relations with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In analyzing King and the times in which he lived, Frady relies on his own invaluable insight as a journalist who witnessed many of the events of the civil rights movement first hand.
