Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (inscribed first edition)

Lewis, John; D'orso, Michael

ISBN 10: 0684810654 / ISBN 13: 9780684810652

Edité par Simon & Schuster, 1998

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First edition, first printing with full number line. Inscribed by John Lewis on front endpaper in year of publication. A fine copy in a fine DJ with light bumps to the ends of spine, now protected in removable mylar cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #35.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (inscribed first edition)
• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0684810654
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780684810652
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Book by Lewis John Dorso Michael

Présentation de l'éditeur

The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.

In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Lewis’ adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s most charismatic and courageous leaders. Lewis’s leadership in the Nashville Movement—a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi—set the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis’ vision and perseverance altered history. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change.

The late Edward M. Kennedy said of Lewis, “John tells it like it was…Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history.”