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Authors Jonathan Eig ("King: A Life"), Antonia Hylton ("Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum") and Edwin Raymond ("An Inconvenient Cop") discussed issues of systemic racism as wel…

Journalist Jonathan Eig examined the life of Martin Luther King Jr., including recently declassified FBI documents about the civil rights leader. This was part of the 2023 Gaithersburg Book …

Authors Laura Meckler (Dream Town) and Jonathan Eig (King-A Life) discussed racial equity and the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. This event took place at the 2023 Miami Book Fair.

Author and journalist Jonathan Eig discussed the life of Martin Luther King Jr., in the first comprehensive biography of the civil rights leader in over 30 years. The Jimmy Carter Presidenti…

A discussion on biography from the 23rd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books that featured Jonathan Eig, Ali: A Life; John Farrell, Richard Nixon: A Life; Andrea Barnet, Visionary Wome…

Jonathan Eig talked about his book Ali, in which he recounts the life and politics of Muhammad Ali. He spoke at the 2017 Southern Festival of Books.

Jonathan Eig talked about his book Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season, published by Simon and Schuster. The author contended that Robinson was not the best player in th…

Jonathan Eig talked about his book, The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. He spoke with Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich. “Jonathan Eig…

Authors talked about their books on famous fugitives. They also responded to questions from members of the audience. Skip Hollandsworth moderated. The panelists were: Malcolm Beith, The L…

Jonathan Eig talks about his book The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, about the birth control pill’s development, from Margaret Sanger’s activ…

Jonathan Eig recounts the criminal exploits of Chicago-based Al Capone whose illegal bootlegging enterprise saw revenues on par with many of the nation’s largest companies. Utilizing newly …

Jonathan Eig talked about his book Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster (Simon & Schuster, 2008) in conversation with Rick Kogan. Mr. Eig responded to que…