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The book provides new material pertaining to Lewis's personal and professional life. It details his role in the Civil Rights Movement, providing details of his role during the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, where Lewis was severely beaten and almost died. This biography also chronicles Lewis's legacy of fighting for equality and justice.
The post Biography of the late Rep. John Lewis that draws upon 100s of interviews will be published next fall appeared first on TheGrio. Historian David Greenberg pens “John Lewis: A Life” NEW ...
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist's FBI files and materials from a planned book that was never ...
Walter McGehee Hooper (March 27, 1931 – December 7, 2020) was an American writer. He is best known as the editor of many posthumous books by C. S. Lewis, as the joint author of a biography of Lewis and as the literary advisor of Lewis's estate.
The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography: W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), English playwright and writer 2011 John Lewis Gaddis: George F. Kennan: An American Life: George F. Kennan (1904–2005), American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian: Winner [38] [39] Ezra F. Vogel: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Fred Kaplan's review in The New York Times described the book as "an epic work—probing, engrossing, occasionally revelatory—but also a well-timed one". [ 7 ] According to a review in The Economist , the circumstances of the biography were that Gaddis began conducting interviews and accumulating papers from Kennan in 1981 with the ...
Patrick Gass (June 12, 1771 – April 2, 1870) served as sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). He was important to the expedition because of his service as a carpenter, and he published the first journal of the expedition in 1807, seven years before the first publication based on Lewis and Clark's journals.