{"product_id":"his-truth-is-marching-on-john-lewis-and-the-power-of-hope-hardcover","title":"His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eCOSMOPOLITAN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called \"the better angels of our nature.\" From an early age, Lewis learned that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family's chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it--his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God--and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeacham calls Lewis \"as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century.\" A believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbor as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Meacham \u003c\/b\u003eis a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. A contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eand a contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, he is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Hope of Glory, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFranklin and Winston\u003c\/i\u003e. Meacham, who holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, lives in Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.5 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768759419168,"sku":"9781984855022","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2dadfcf7f846877fb56a99295bbb64fc.webp?v=1780336763","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/his-truth-is-marching-on-john-lewis-and-the-power-of-hope-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}