A comprehensive biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, 'the conscience of the Congress,' drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.
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.
