{"title":"Jonathan Eig","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the gripping narratives of Jonathan Eig, exploring history and biography with unparalleled depth. Perfect for readers seeking meticulously researched and compellingly told real-life stories. Start your exploration here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ali-a-life-book-jonathan-eig-9781471155949","title":"Ali: A Life","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE.   SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.   THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.   WINNER OF THE PEN\/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING.   THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.     The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career.      When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see.     In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit.     An epic tale of a fighter who became the world's most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man.     'Ali: A Life is the business - 640 pages of patient scholarship and intelligent reassessment written in crackly prose' Giles Smith, The Times    '[A] richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait ... Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510629179665,"sku":"GOR010650738","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469012766993,"sku":"CIN1471155943G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52498558157073,"sku":"GOR011939596","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471155943.jpg?v=1751431268"},{"product_id":"ali-a-life-book-jonathan-eig-9781471155956","title":"Ali: A Life","description":"BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.  WINNER OF THE PEN\/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING.  THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.   The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career.    When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see.   In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit.   An epic tale of a fighter who became the world's most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man.  ‘Ali: A Life is the business – 640 pages of patient scholarship and intelligent reassessment written in crackly prose’ Giles Smith, The Times    ‘[A] richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait ... Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography’ Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49511489372433,"sku":"GOR009390522","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49564331180305,"sku":"GOR009682174","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640179073297,"sku":"GOR011966476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734453854481,"sku":"NGR9781471155956","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50487707861265,"sku":"GOR009687109","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52664795660561,"sku":"NLS9781471155956","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471155951.jpg?v=1751456839"},{"product_id":"ali-a-life-book-jonathan-eig-9781471155932","title":"Ali: A Life","description":"BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.  WINNER OF THE PEN\/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING.  THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.   The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career.    When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see.   In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit.   An epic tale of a fighter who became the world's most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man.  ‘Ali: A Life is the business – 640 pages of patient scholarship and intelligent reassessment written in crackly prose’ Giles Smith, The Times    ‘[A] richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait ... Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography’ Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49517008224529,"sku":"GOR008774118","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625547145489,"sku":"GOR009202589","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49902025441553,"sku":"CIN1471155935G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50277572772113,"sku":"GOR008794450","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50760339390737,"sku":"GOR009625206","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471155935.jpg?v=1751427618"},{"product_id":"birth-of-the-pill-book-jonathan-eig-9780393073720","title":"The Birth of the Pill","description":"We know it simply as \"the pill,\" yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.   Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pill is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524557218065,"sku":"GOR011026536","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49762905489681,"sku":"CIN0393073726A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50353368531217,"sku":"CIN0393073726G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761984770321,"sku":"CIN0393073726VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393073726.jpg?v=1751433990"},{"product_id":"luckiest-man-book-jonathan-eig-9780743245913","title":"Luckiest Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLou Gehrig was a baseball legend--the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated--and, perhaps, even more heroic--than anyone really knew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig's wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig's affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous luckiest man speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we've never seen him before.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532132983057,"sku":"GOR004793511","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49751856906513,"sku":"CIN0743245911G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469428953361,"sku":"CIN0743245911A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50611537182993,"sku":"CIN0743245911VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143274881297,"sku":"GOR011633844","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743245911.jpg?v=1751442954"},{"product_id":"luckiest-man-book-jonathan-eig-9780743268936","title":"Luckiest Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLou Gehrig was a baseball legend--the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated--and, perhaps, even more heroic--than anyone really knew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig's wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig's affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous luckiest man speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we've never seen him before.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49536078283025,"sku":"GOR006365829","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553227809041,"sku":"GOR004237796","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49726060724497,"sku":"CIN0743268938G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49762899165457,"sku":"CIN0743268938A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49890081898769,"sku":"CIN0743268938VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50913875558673,"sku":"GOR007000184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006394630417,"sku":"NIN9780743268936","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743268938.jpg?v=1750848609"},{"product_id":"get-capone-book-jonathan-eig-9781907532047","title":"Get Capone","description":"Al Capone - immortalised by Al Pacino in the film Scarface - was America's most wanted gangster in the prohibition era, and leader of the crime organisation, the Chicago Outfit. Capone dealt in gambling, prostitution, racketeering, casinos, and the illegal sale of liquor. Fights with many other gangs left hundreds dead, culminating in the atrocities of the St Valentines Day massacre in 1929. From President Herbert Hoover down to the US Attorney in Chicago, the word went out to 'get Capone'. He was not caught by Elliot Ness and his 'Untouchables' - celebrated in Brian De Palma's film of the same name - in the Bureau or Prohibition, but by government attorneys and accountants who, operating on direct orders from the President, risked their lives and compromised their ethics to get their man. In this fascinating new book, Eig uses recently discovered federal papers, wiretaps, memos, IRS records, and personal letters of Al Capone, as well as newly released government documents, to tell the real story of how Capone was brought to justice. In this vivid story of violence, corruption and blue-sky thinking, Eig tells the story of the rise and fall of one of the best-known gangsters in history. Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal and is author of two highly acclaimed New York Times bestsellers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540565106961,"sku":"GOR005941177","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51067857862929,"sku":"GOR006724561","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52696342167825,"sku":"GOR007498056","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907532048.jpg?v=1751347401"},{"product_id":"birth-of-the-pill-book-jonathan-eig-9780230770140","title":"The Birth of the Pill","description":"In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building.  She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior.  His name was Gregory Pincus.     In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded.  Together, these four determined men and women changed the world.Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, The Birth of the Pill is a gripping account of a remarkable cultural, social and scientific journey","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49542114803985,"sku":"GOR011758698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569057472785,"sku":"GOR006612664","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600524026129,"sku":"GOR006736542","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653976039697,"sku":"GOR013438792","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0230770142.jpg?v=1751038148"},{"product_id":"birth-of-the-pill-book-jonathan-eig-9781447234814","title":"The Birth of the Pill","description":"In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building.  She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior.  His name was Gregory Pincus.     In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded.  Together, these four determined men and women changed the world.Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, The Birth of the Pillis a gripping account of a remarkable cultural, social and scientific journey","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543423885585,"sku":"GOR007671571","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50264409899281,"sku":"GOR010068501","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109037535505,"sku":"GOR009683839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52405401780497,"sku":"NLS9781447234814","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1447234812.jpg?v=1751444927"},{"product_id":"birth-of-the-pill-book-jonathan-eig-9780393351897","title":"The Birth of the Pill","description":"We know it simply as \"the pill,\" yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.   Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pill is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555894862097,"sku":"GOR013599598","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50054040977681,"sku":"CIN0393351890A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125346963729,"sku":"CIN0393351890VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002079248657,"sku":"NIN9780393351897","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103577862417,"sku":"CIN0393351890G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393351890.jpg?v=1750942310"},{"product_id":"birth-of-the-pill-book-jonathan-eig-9781447275558","title":"The Birth of the Pill","description":"In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building.  She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior.  His name was Gregory Pincus.      In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded.  Together, these four determined men and women changed the world.Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, The Birth of the Pill is a gripping account of a remarkable cultural, social and scientific journey","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49558757277969,"sku":"GOR006684788","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50383145894161,"sku":"CIN1447275551G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52658588746001,"sku":"GOR014578483","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1447275551.jpg?v=1753686342"},{"product_id":"get-capone-book-jonathan-eig-9781416580607","title":"Get Capone","description":"Synopsis coming soon.......","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603547660561,"sku":"GOR004592170","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630633591057,"sku":"GOR004429962","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643352129809,"sku":"GOR011945661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372867162385,"sku":"CIN1416580603G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579857441041,"sku":"CIN1416580603VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763916673297,"sku":"CIN1416580603A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51024923296017,"sku":"NIN9781416580607","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1416580603.jpg?v=1773222629"},{"product_id":"ali-book-jonathan-eig-9780544435247","title":"Ali","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | Winner of the PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year | The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author with unique access to Ali's inner circle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Finally Muhammad Ali has a biography as big, complex, and memorable as the man himself.\" --T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America's master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali's politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali's life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. Ali: A Life is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography . . . for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel--a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.\" -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608910536977,"sku":"GOR011686900","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50024935129361,"sku":"CIN0544435249VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50168800182545,"sku":"CIN0544435249G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50869522137361,"sku":"GOR014099198","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109250855185,"sku":"GOR009270273","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52723622445329,"sku":"CIN0544435249A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544435249.jpg?v=1751450896"},{"product_id":"opening-day-book-jonathan-eig-9780743294614","title":"Opening Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApril 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War I had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front--and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. He offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinson's closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field? \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life baseball's ultimate story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633698906385,"sku":"GOR005285458","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49931573690641,"sku":"CIN0743294610G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940075217169,"sku":"CIN0743294610A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006442897681,"sku":"NIN9780743294614","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51440346333457,"sku":"GOR009546206","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51769510199569,"sku":"CIN0743294610VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743294610.jpg?v=1751328564"},{"product_id":"get-capone-book-jonathan-eig-9781416580591","title":"Get Capone","description":"Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you've never seen him before. In addition to IRS files, Eig got hold of the personal papers of the U.S. attorney in Chicago who prosecuted Capone. He even found family members who would share stories about their notorious relative. The author, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, brings his uncompromising standards for research and his superb knack for storytelling to one of the most thrilling stories in American history. This eye-opening biography reveals that Capone was the target of one of the most intense criminal investigations in American history--with orders coming directly from the White House. Capone flaunted his criminal success so openly that President Hoover insisted the gangster be stopped. And, despite his many misdeeds, Capone may have been the victim of a rigged trial. Get Capone also offers a bold new theory to explain the Valentine's Day Massacre and sheds new light on Capone's connection--or lack thereof--to the crime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49659993850129,"sku":"GOR005790949","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49922700181777,"sku":"GOR002775218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49923684729105,"sku":"CIN141658059XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50011663008017,"sku":"CIN141658059XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52630813966609,"sku":"CIN141658059XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/141658059X.jpg?v=1751435174"},{"product_id":"king-book-jonathan-eig-9781471181030","title":"King","description":"WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY   A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*  Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.      In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.     He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.     As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became its only modern-day founding father – as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.   In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49727701909777,"sku":"GOR013658291","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733004755217,"sku":"NGR9781471181030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50416791060753,"sku":"CIN1471181030G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50753565229329,"sku":"GOR014059222","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50964139409681,"sku":"GOR014150253","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52615100596497,"sku":"NLS9781471181030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471181030.jpg?v=1751210579"},{"product_id":"king-book-jonathan-eig-9781471181009","title":"King","description":"A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*  Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.      In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.     He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.     As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became its only modern-day founding father – as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.   In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733235081489,"sku":"NGR9781471181009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50260556382481,"sku":"GOR013190539","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50947120431377,"sku":"GOR013178073","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51430026477841,"sku":"GOR014272072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52876663030033,"sku":"GOR014649971","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471181006.jpg?v=1750859185"},{"product_id":"d-o-g-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565704","title":"The D.O.G.","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eLola is back! Fresh from her escapades at her school when the principal is not exactly impressed with her very unusual pigtails, and straight from her hard-pressed victory with the boys who don't want to let the girls play soccer, Lola now has to convince her mother that having a dog is a good idea.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738610704657,"sku":"NGR9780807565704","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367853723921,"sku":"CIN0807565709G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565709.jpg?v=1751329070"},{"product_id":"d-o-g-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565728","title":"The D.O.G.","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eLola is back! Fresh from her escapades at her school when the principal is not exactly impressed with her very unusual pigtails, and straight from her hard-pressed victory with the boys who don't want to let the girls play soccer, Lola now has to convince her mother that having a dog is a good idea.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738680729873,"sku":"NGR9780807565728","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469317116177,"sku":"CIN0807565725G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51330112323857,"sku":"CIN0807565725VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565725.jpg?v=1751422599"},{"product_id":"score-for-imagination-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565650","title":"Score for Imagination","description":"Lola and her friends want to play soccer. The boys don't want them to. The girls are not only good players, they're also strategic, and end up scoring for the team.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739908972817,"sku":"NGR9780807565650","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367847334161,"sku":"CIN0807565652G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565652.jpg?v=1751423248"},{"product_id":"score-for-imagination-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565698","title":"Score for Imagination","description":"Lola and her friends want to play soccer. The boys don't want them to. The girls are not only good players, they're also strategic, and end up scoring for the team.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739914510609,"sku":"NGR9780807565698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367851528465,"sku":"CIN0807565695VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105601319185,"sku":"CIN0807565695G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565695.jpg?v=1751439442"},{"product_id":"some-pigtails-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565681","title":"Some Pigtails","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Foreword Indies Finalist - Juvenile\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lola's grandfather does the best pigtails ever. But her principal isn't so sure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lola has a mind of her own and a love for books. With the help of Grandpa Ed and the support of her mother and friends, she learns how to use her determination to right a wrong at school.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739957993745,"sku":"NGR9780807565681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469314953489,"sku":"CIN0807565687G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52950431400209,"sku":"CIN0807565687VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53396726972689,"sku":"CIN0807565687A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565687.jpg?v=1751395020"},{"product_id":"everybody-s-home-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565766","title":"Everybody's Home","description":"Another Lola Jones escapade with our book-loving third grader  Lola and her twenty-nine classmates don't understand the words to a traditional song they're meant to sing at the upcoming Winter Concert, so they make up their own, very silly (and very funny) words. Lola's mother and her Grampa get involved too, and we all learn not only the words to the song, but something about global warming, by the time of the concert.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742969438481,"sku":"NGR9780807565766","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565768.jpg?v=1750786716"},{"product_id":"everybody-s-home-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565742","title":"Everybody's Home","description":"Another Lola Jones escapade with our book-loving third grader  Lola and her twenty-nine classmates don't understand the words to a traditional song they're meant to sing at the upcoming Winter Concert, so they make up their own, very silly (and very funny) words. Lola's mother and her Grampa get involved too, and we all learn not only the words to the song, but something about global warming, by the time of the concert.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742991425809,"sku":"NGR9780807565742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362900906257,"sku":"CIN0807565741A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50659214262545,"sku":"CIN0807565741VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105604104465,"sku":"CIN0807565741G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565741.jpg?v=1751233103"},{"product_id":"opening-day-book-jonathan-eig-9780743294607","title":"Opening Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApril 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War I had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front--and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. He offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinson's closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field? \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life baseball's ultimate story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49761402421521,"sku":"CIN0743294602G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50784273203473,"sku":"CIN0743294602VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51575598252305,"sku":"GOR006821708","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743294602.jpg?v=1751137219"},{"product_id":"king-book-jonathan-eig-9781471181016","title":"King","description":"A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*  Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.      In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.     He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.     As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became its only modern-day founding father – as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.   In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49778008359185,"sku":"GOR013782232","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50469022269713,"sku":"GOR013681490","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1471181014.jpg?v=1751443069"},{"product_id":"opening-day-the-story-of-jackie-robinson-s-first-season-cd-9781400104345","title":"Opening Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApril 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War I had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front--and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. He offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinson's closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field? \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, \u003ci\u003eOpening Day\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life baseball's ultimate story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49801665773841,"sku":"CIN1400104343VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1400104343.jpg?v=1750825394"},{"product_id":"king-a-life-book-jonathan-eig-9780374279295","title":"King: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFeatured on Amazon's Al Woolworth's Top 10 Books of the Past 25 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award |\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed one of the ten best books of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker'\u003c\/i\u003es essential reads of 2023 | A \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e best book of the year | One of \u003ci\u003eAir Mail'\u003c\/i\u003es twelve best books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and national indie bestseller |\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly'\u003c\/i\u003es best nonfiction books of 2023 | One of \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's ten best books of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig's book is worthy of its subject.\" --Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e is] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King's life in a generation.\" --Mark Whitaker, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig's sweeping and majestic new \u003ci\u003eKing . . .\u003c\/i\u003e Eig has created 2023′s most vital tome.\" --Will Bunch, \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the new definitive biography,\" \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's \u003ci\u003eKing: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father--as well as the nation's most mourned martyr.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49941920776465,"sku":"CIN0374279292VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983671136529,"sku":"NIN9780374279295","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103311130897,"sku":"CIN0374279292G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52976488874257,"sku":"GOR014676106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53257663152401,"sku":"CIN0374279292A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374279292.jpg?v=1765619746"},{"product_id":"ali-book-jonathan-eig-9781328505699","title":"Ali","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | Winner of the PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year | The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author with unique access to Ali's inner circle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Finally Muhammad Ali has a biography as big, complex, and memorable as the man himself.\" --T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America's master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali's politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali's life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. Ali: A Life is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography . . . for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel--a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.\" -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50130718327057,"sku":"CIN1328505693VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50608970629393,"sku":"CIN1328505693G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51023049228561,"sku":"NIN9781328505699","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":51689470558481,"sku":"CIN1328505693LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52421860262161,"sku":"CIN1328505693A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53445199954193,"sku":"GOR014923620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1328505693.jpg?v=1750952811"},{"product_id":"capone-book-jonathan-eig-9781572841468","title":"Capone","description":"Capone is a visual retelling of the rise and eventual fall of Chicago's most notorious gangster: Alphonse \"Scarface\" Capone. Comprised of many previously unreleased photographs from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Capone reveals the Roaring Twenties and the early days of organized crime. Taken from 1926 to 1952, these photos focus on Capone and his extended network of family, friends, and enemies. All the photos -- high-quality scans of original glass-plate negatives -- are historically significant for both those interested in Capone and photography buffs in general. The first section covers Al Capone's luxurious and illicit gangster lifestyle, including vacation homes, mob funerals, and gun-toting arrests up to and including the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. Part two documents Capone's 1931 arrest, trial, and sentencing on charges of defrauding the government. The third section introduces a mob target who evaded assassination for decades, and another who wasn't so lucky. Part four follows up with Al Capone's brother, Ralph, and the final section focuses on Capone's death.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138971668753,"sku":"CIN157284146XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50382495121681,"sku":"CIN157284146XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52437263057169,"sku":"GOR009969408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/157284146X.jpg?v=1750894631"},{"product_id":"luckiest-man-the-life-and-death-of-lou-gehrig-cd-9780743530118","title":"Luckiest Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLou Gehrig was a baseball legend--the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated--and, perhaps, even more heroic--than anyone really knew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig's wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig's affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous luckiest man speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we've never seen him before.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50143764250897,"sku":"CIN074353011XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/074353011X.jpg?v=1751169148"},{"product_id":"ali-a-life-cd-9781501979767","title":"Ali","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author with unique access to Ali's inner circle. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinally Muhammad Ali has a biography as big, complex, and memorable as the man himself. --T.J. Stiles, author of \u003cem\u003eCuster's Trials\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe First Tycoon\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America's master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali's politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali's life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. \u003cem\u003eAli: A Life \u003c\/em\u003eis a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so \u003cem\u003eAli: A Life \u003c\/em\u003eis an epic of a biography . . . for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel--a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters. -- Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50229808464145,"sku":"CIN1501979760G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501979760.jpg?v=1751148804"},{"product_id":"some-pigtails-book-jonathan-eig-9780807565643","title":"Some Pigtails","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Foreword Indies Finalist - Juvenile\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lola's grandfather does the best pigtails ever. But her principal isn't so sure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lola has a mind of her own and a love for books. With the help of Grandpa Ed and the support of her mother and friends, she learns how to use her determination to right a wrong at school.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367842582801,"sku":"CIN0807565644G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52779829428497,"sku":"CIN0807565644VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807565644.jpg?v=1751138594"},{"product_id":"king-a-life-book-jonathan-eig-9781250335647","title":"King: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFeatured on Amazon's Al Woolworth's Top 10 Books of the Past 25 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award |\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed one of the ten best books of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker'\u003c\/i\u003es essential reads of 2023 | A \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e best book of the year | One of \u003ci\u003eAir Mail'\u003c\/i\u003es twelve best books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and national indie bestseller |\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly'\u003c\/i\u003es best nonfiction books of 2023 | One of \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's ten best books of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig's book is worthy of its subject.\" --Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e is] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King's life in a generation.\" --Mark Whitaker, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig's sweeping and majestic new \u003ci\u003eKing . . .\u003c\/i\u003e Eig has created 2023′s most vital tome.\" --Will Bunch, \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the new definitive biography,\" \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's \u003ci\u003eKing: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father--as well as the nation's most mourned martyr.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50985804464401,"sku":"NIN9781250335647","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51454101061905,"sku":"CIN1250335647G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51511440212241,"sku":"CIN1250335647VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53450502537489,"sku":"NGR9781250335647","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250335647.jpg?v=1750986344"},{"product_id":"king-a-life-young-adult-edition-book-jonathan-eig-9780374393106","title":"King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHailed as \"the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King's life in a generation\" by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this new standard biography of the most famous civil rights activist in American History.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Often regarded as more of a myth and legend than man, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was many things throughout his storied life: student, activist, preacher, dreamer, father, husband. From his Atlanta childhood centered in the historically Black neighborhood of Sweet Auburn to his precipitous rise as a civil rights leader on the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery, Dr. King would go on to become one of the most recognizable, influential, and controversial persons of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this fast-paced and immersive adaptation of Jonathan Eig's groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller readers will meet a Dr. King like no other: a committed radical whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime, a minister wrestling with his human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The inspiring young adult edition of \u003ci\u003eKing: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the author's never-before-seen research--including recently declassified FBI documents--while reaffirming and recontextualizing the lasting effects and implications of MLK's work for the present day. Adapted by National Book Award-nominated authors Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, this biography for a new generation is a nuanced, unprecedented portrayal of a man who truly shook the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eAccolades and Praise for \u003ci\u003eKing: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize Winner\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and Indie Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e A National Book Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e A \"Best Book of the Year\" from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e ● \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e ● \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine ● \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e ● \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e ● \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e ● \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine ● \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e ● \u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig's book is worthy of its subject.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig's sweeping and majestic new \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001860423953,"sku":"NIN9780374393106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332244603153,"sku":"CIN0374393109VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51461136679185,"sku":"CIN0374393109G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374393109.jpg?v=1750780873"},{"product_id":"king-a-life-young-adult-edition-book-jonathan-eig-9780374396404","title":"King: a Life (Young Adult Edition)","description":"George W. P. Hunt was a highly colorful Arizona politician. A territorial representative and seven-time Arizona state governor, Hunt joined Woodrow Wilson in making the Democratic Party the party of Progressive reform. This political biography follows Hunt through his years in the territorial legislature, and then as governor. Author David R. Berman's well-researched and detailed work features Hunt's battles to stem the powers of large corporations, democratize the political system, defend labor rights, reform the prison system, abolish the death penalty, and protect Arizona's interests in the Colorado River. He had a special concern for the down and out. He found the forgotten man long before Franklin Roosevelt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hunt was proof that style and physical appearance neither guarantee nor preclude political success, for the three-hundred-pound man of odd dress and bumbling speech had a political career that spanned the state's Populism of the 1890s to the 1930s New Deal. Driven by causes, he was very active in public office but took little pleasure in doing the job. Called names by opponents and embarrassed by his lack of formal education, Hunt sometimes showed rage, self-pity, and bitterness at what he saw as betrayals and conspiracies against him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author assesses Hunt's successes and failings as a political leader and take-charge governor struggling to produce results in a political system hostile to executive authority. Berman offers a nuanced look at Arizona's first governor, providing an important new understanding of Arizona's complex political history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53450456236305,"sku":"NGR9780374396404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374396404.jpg?v=1776896855"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-jonathan-eig.oembed?page=2","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}