Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement - Brossura

Lewis, John; D'Orso, Michael

 
9780156007085: Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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ISBN 10: 0156007088 ISBN 13: 9780156007085
Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 1999

Sinossi

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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Recensione

"Publication of Walking with the Wind is a literary event, for sure. This is the definitive account of the civil rights movement. . . . It is impossible to read this inspirational and hideous story of courage and cruelty without being moved. -the Washington Post "John Lewis evokes, with simplicity and passion, how the 1960s transformed the United States. . . . Powerful."-the New York Times Book Review
"For those too young to remember and those too old to forget, for everyone of race, we owe a debt of gratitude to this American hero, and the nameless, frightened (but ultimately fearless) multitudes that walked with him down those rugged roads of history." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Product Description

Book by Lewis John DOrso Michael

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Editore
Mariner Books
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0156007088
ISBN 13 
9780156007085
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
526
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781476797717: Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1476797714 ISBN 13:  9781476797717
Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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