Appropriately weighty ... Less hagiographic ... Some biographers must wrestle with their subjects’ inconsistencies, but Greenberg, for the most part, has the opposite challenge: Lewis seems to have been a stubbornly straightforward character ... [A] careful account.
Panoramic and richly insightful ... This biography sets a new standard by giving Lewis’s post-civil-rights story the depth of attention it deserves ... Numerous interviews.