Walking with the Wind (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Lewis, John

 
9780156007085: Walking with the Wind (Harvest Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0156007088 ISBN 13: 9780156007085
Verlag: Mariner Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Written with charm, warmth, and honesty, Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." While there have been exceptional books on the movement, there has never been a front-line account by a man like John Lewis. A true American hero, his story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature." (Los Angeles Times)

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lewis has been the Representative for the 5th U.S. Congressional District of Georgia since 1986.

Michael D'Orso is the author of sixteen books, which include Oceana", Plundering Paradise", and The Cost of Courage". His work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker", Time", Newsweek", Sports Illustrated", and other publications.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0156007088
ISBN 13 
9780156007085
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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