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...Carson, who is also the director and senior editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, pieced together King's writings, correspondences and interviews into what reads as a firstperson narrative of King's life...
...response to an audience member's question, Carson acknowledged that his work has sparked some controversy. Carson said he thought he was able to place King's words in the proper context, even though he never met the civil rights leader...
...think I'm more aware of the context than most book editors," Carson said. "I've spent more time studying King's [papers] than he spent in his public life producing them...
...Carson did say he faced some problems in editing the book...
...passage Carson read was drawn from a letter King wrote to his fiancée six months after they met. The letter symbolizes the book's importance, Carson said, because it has never been published previously and sheds new light on King's life...