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Summary: Must Read! If you don't know this story, you should!
Review: I read this book after meeting Congressman Lewis and was blown away by his story and its telling. The memoir reads like a novel and beautifully tells the story of Mr. Lewis and others whose history has shaped this country, but whose names escape our national vocabulary. This is a book you will be glad you read, and will want to share with others. Inspiring read.
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Summary: A true story that reads like a novel.
Review: I think everyone will enjoy reading this book. I would recommend parents read and discuss the events with your children. If you can tell them about your life during this time. This book is like a novel once you start reading it, its hard to put it down until you finish it.
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Summary: Walking With the Wind
Review: I thought this one of the best books I've ever read. John Lewis to me is like a Frederick Douglass living today. Lewis in my opinion is right up there with the best namely Dr.King. These men with nothing more than a philosphy, determination, and great bravery led African American people to a new life in this country. I am a benefactor of their work. I was the first black woman hired at the General Motors Tech Center, on the day shift, there was another young woman working on the night shift. The GM TECH CENTER is on Warren, Michigan just outside of Det. Leaders like John Lewis and King and the many grass roots black southerners and the many white and Jewish people who risked and gave their lives are responsible for the much larger black middle class that exist today. I just thank John and all that were involved in the struggle. I never marched, but I am sorry that I did not. I missed contributing to a bit of history that I would love to have participated in today. I am so glad John wrote this book. Thank you John. Thank YOu and Love to you and yours. I live in Michigan, guess I can contact John Conyers to see what I can do to help today. Since we seem to be losing or on the verge of losing many of the benefits that our people, and our friends fought for in the 50's and sixties.
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Summary: A True American Hero
Review: John Lewis captured the Spirit of America and the true motivation behind the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in "Walking With The Wind." This book allows the reader to not only experience the movement, but to gain a better understanding of the issues and events that have shaped American history in the last half of the twentienth century. Brilliantly crafted, this book epitomizes the "American Dream." Highly recommended to anyone interested in American history or modern day hereos.
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Summary: Walking With the Wind is a soon-to-be American classic.
Review: John Lewis chronicles his ascendancy from the backroads of Alabama to the hallowed halls of Congress - an experience which reads more like carefully contrived fiction than real life events. The struggles, the triumphs, the emotions, the meanings are all carefully woven to create a soon-to-be American classic literary canon, depicting the Civil Rights Era. Lewis, described as an American treasure, lives up to the title with his intimate details of the renown leaders of the movement and the not-so-well-known heroes, who fought tirelessly to end the social injustices of the segregated South. Twenty-first century textbook authors would be remiss, if not negligent, by not including the perspectives of Lewis' Walking with the Wind. Amazingly, Lewis remains humble, despite his successes. He is a role model, and more importantly, a 20th Century American hero. Walking with the Wind is a must-read for all.
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Summary: An outstanding educational tool for all Americans
Review: John Lewis has managed to turn his life story in the Civil Rights Movement into one of the most effective teaching instruments ever. Walking with the Wind gives examples of courage, fortitude, patience, and perserverance. Most importantly, however, it is such an excellent example of African American family life that has long been kept on the back burner. It shows us that no matter how poor we are, we can still achieve for ourselves and, in turn, give back to our communities. I commend John Lewis and thank him from the bottom of my heart for this outstanding literary contribution.
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Summary: A truly inspiring, excellently written memoir. . .
Review: John Lewis in his autobiography "Walking with the Wind" has once again stirred the souls of a people. As he vividly describes the struggles during the civil rights movement, time slips away and you become an active participant with John in the movement for racial equality that rocked the nation.
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Summary: Civil rights hero still lives in the past
Review: John Lewis is a genuine civil rights hero. This book begins by painting a clear portrait of the struggles that John Lewis fought and still fights for. Lewis' memoirs of the movement are very touching. However, the book lost me, towards the end, when Lewis argued in favor of his socialist political ideology. He engages in the politics of personal destruction against the likes of prominent conservative African Americans such as Clarence Thomas. He portrays the Republican party unfairly suggesting that they are a bunch of closet racists. As a republican and a civil rights advocate, I was offended. This book could have been a brilliant portrayal of the history of the civil rights movement. Instead, Lewis moves the premise of the book from history to the politics of personal destruction.
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Summary: One of the most inspirational books I've ever read.
Review: John Lewis is both an American hero and a great storyteller. It's hard to read this book without feeling both awed by and grateful for his courage.
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Summary: A life-altering book.
Review: John Lewis is one of my few living heroes, and I have a great urge to press this book into the hands of anyone who needs someone to look up to. I read it more than a year ago, and I havenÃ*t shaken off its influence yet. I doubt I ever will. Basically, LewisÃ*s autobiography tells the story of a manÃ*s struggle to live his life being true to the tenets of his faith. For him, the core message of Christianity is that we canÃ*t fight evil with evil, but can only overcome it with the power of love. Expressed in words, that may sound simplistic, even sappy. But once John Lewis shows you that philosophy in action, youÃ*ll never be able to think of Christian pacifists as starry-eyed or weak again. Lewis shows readers young civil rights volunteers being kicked, beaten, spit upon and cursed, and forcing themselves not to get angry, forcing themselves to see their oppressors as decent, if misguided, human beings, until, miraculously, some of them began to see themselves in the same way, and to behave like decent human beings. Reading this part of the book, I kept thinking that Lewis has written the greatest, most inspiring war story ever told. The courage of these young people, going into battle with no weapons but faith and love, surpasses that of any soldier who ever lived. The book falters a little at the end, I think. The battles Lewis fights today as a Congressman may be just as important as those he fought in the sixties, but they lack the inherent drama of the early civil rights movement. Nevertheless, itÃ*s inspiring to realize there is at least one man in Congress today with undeniable courage and moral authority. If only there were more like him.
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