Walking with the Wind (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Lewis, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156007088 ISBN 13: 9780156007085

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1999

Synopsis

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)

About this title

From the Publisher:

Juan Williams
"Thrilling. A civil rights hero's fiercely honest look at himself and the nation. Lewis never went for the easy answers, the cliches or with the in-crowd. Now he bares his struggles with evil, history and himself in one of the great memoirs of black movement history."

About the Author:

John Lewis is the US Representative for Georgia's fifth district, a position he has held since 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0156007088
• ISBN 13: 9780156007085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496