"This biography sets a new standard by giving Lewis's post-civil rights story the depth of attention it deserves—and showing how our mild mannered seminarian submerged his pacifist tendencies enough to succeed in the bare-knuckled world of electoral politics."—New York Times Book Review

“Riveting”—Associated Press

“An exemplary life, and an exemplary biography that will rekindle readers’ commitment to racial justice.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Masterful”—Washington Independent Review of Books

“A passionately researched and defining portrait of an American hero.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Tremendous”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“John Lewis was my friend, steadfast ally, and personal hero. I loved him and miss him very much. Every page of David Greenberg’s biography brings him back to life with rich details that reveal not only his legendary moral compass, but the pressures and practical realities he maneuvered in both protest and politics.” —President Bill Clinton

“Full of revelations and compulsively readable, this book is—at long last—the biography that the great John Lewis deserves.” —Ambassador Andrew J. Young, former mayor of Atlanta and top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Behold an American life like no other - lived from outsider protest activist to insider savvy politician with epic, spiritual consequences. From hundreds of revealing interviews and exhaustive documentary research, Greenberg captures Lewis's poetic life in lyrical prose. How dearly we need this model right now of both unsurpassed moral leadership and of the craft of biography.”—David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

“Monumental. A profoundly moving, indefatigably researched, and absorbingly written biography of one of the true heroes of the civil rights movements. Greenberg has given us a brilliantly comprehensive, thought provoking, and deeply personal history of an American hero.”—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life.

“David Greenberg’s comprehensive and compelling biography of John Lewis is a landmark book— rich and sober-minded account of one of the most consequential Americans who ever lived. With his perennial commitment to American aspiration and to bearing witness to the gap between that aspiration and tragic reality, often at fundamental peril to himself, Lewis changed a nation. Greenberg’s powerful book shows us how.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

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