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Jonathan Eig
Rave The Spectator (UK) The first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years, and it will succeed my own Bearing the Cross (BTC), published in 1986, as the standard account ... A far more traditional biography, devoting 135 pages, almost a quarter of his text, to King’s pre-boycott roots and life story ... Eig’s King will remain the best-informed account of this deeply courageous, yet also deeply flawed, life.
Jonathan Eig
Rave The Spectator (UK) Comprehensive ... A traditional biography ... Will remain the best-informed account of this deeply courageous, yet also deeply flawed, life.
Margaret A. Burnham
Pan The Wall Street Journal The book is undermined by the author’s ideology and limited engagement with other similar works ... [Burnham] offers brief summaries of the tragic family losses of dozens of black citizens killed by white lawmen, and also identifies fascinating but little-known black attorneys... who merit more sustained attention than she gives them. Yet those stories pass so quickly from one to another that, as the book progresses, even a diligent reader will be hard pressed to keep track of who was who ... Ms. Burnham’s argument is as clear as her book is weak.
James Kirchick
Rave The Spectator World (UK) Incredibly rich and impressively thorough ... Hugely valuable ... Secret City is a work of enduring scholarship that will be read for decades to come.
Jerry Mitchell
Positive The Washington Post ... covers largely familiar ground ... Mitchell’s valuable memoir again and again illuminates both the seedy worlds of hate-filled Klansmen and the wide-ranging tactics that lawmen used in pursuing them ... indefatigable reporting ... Only at the very end of Race Against Time does Mitchell confess that the successful prosecutions his memoir highlights represent only a minority of the civil-rights-era killings he investigated, and that far more \'cold cases ended with no convictions\' or indictments ... But Mitchell is too harsh a judge of his own record, for no other journalist has made a greater contribution to cold-case investigations than has he.
Jack Goldsmith
Rave The Washington Post ... emotionally powerful and utterly compelling ... In Hoffa’s Shadow is highly impressive not only as a nonfiction murder mystery but also as a work of profoundly apologetic filial love.