Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

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Summary: Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Review: "John Lewis's eloquent autobiography is also a powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods of America's history. John tells it like it was-the sit-in movement, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge, and many other dramatic moments in the nation's conscience. This story of courage and hope should be read by Americans of all races and backgrounds, young and old. John Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history.

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Summary: Senator Paul Wellstone
Review: "'Walking with the Wind' is a beautiful, powerful book, not just about our past, but our future."

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Summary: Comment by Ed Bradley, "60 Minutes"
Review: "John Lewis is a true hero."

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Summary: Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Review: "John Lewis' eloquent autobiography is also a powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods of America's history. John tells it like it was--the sit-in movement, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge, and many other dramatic moments in the nation's conscience. This story of courage and hope should be read by Americans of all races and backgrounds, young and old. John Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history."

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Summary: Cornel West, Harvard University
Review: "No other elected official in America embodies the grand legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. more than John Lewis. In other words, he is a national treasure. Read this book and see why!"

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Summary: Cornel West, Harvard University
Review: "No other elected official in America embodies the grand legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. more than John Lewis. In other words, he is a national treasure. Read this book and see why!"

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Summary: Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center
Review: "No soldier has been braver or more patriotic than John Lewis. The brutal beatings he took at the Selma bridge, the Montgomery bus terminal and dozens of historic conflicts is vividly captured in 'Walking with the Wind.' His rise from volunteer demonstrator to a mature leader in the final battle of the American Revolution insures him a place as a national hero."

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Summary: Wil Haygood, author of KING OF THE CATS
Review: "There is something Lincolnesque about the life of John Lewis: the humble beginnings, the civil rights battles, the patriotic vision, the fearlessness. He emerges--though he would be the last to make such a claim--in this powerful autobiography as the conscience of a nation still grappling with right and wrong, justice and injustice."

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Summary: Juan Williams
Review: "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."

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Summary: Senator Paul Wellstone
Review: "Walking with the Wind is a beautiful, powerful book, not just about our past, but about our future."