The Broken King Biography & Autobiography Memoirs Cultural & Regional Family & Relationships Family Relationships reflect some of the same

reflect some of the same realities and struggles that many Americans face in their everyday lives

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What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment

and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation

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The Broken King Biography & Autobiography Memoirs Cultural & Regional Family & Relationships Family Relationships reflect some of the sameMichael Thomass extraordinary new book, The Broken King , traces the lives of the men in his family against the backdrop of the last century and a half in American history. From Reconstruction to the Jim Crow South and Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and deracination, success and failure, soccer and the Red Sox in a beautifully unique memoir. The title is borrowed from T. S. Eliots