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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Paperback – February 10, 2015

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An 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’s 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’s 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.”
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Congressman John Lewis was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks, and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. He is co-author of the first comics work ever to win the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir trilogy MARCH, written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell. He is also the recipient of numerous awards from national and international institutions including the Lincoln Medal, the John F. Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NAACP Spingarn Medal, among many others. He lives in Atlanta, GA.
Michael D'Orsois the author of sixteen books, which include Oceana, Plundering Paradise, and The Cost of Courage. His work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (February 10, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476797714
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476797717
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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    Congressman John Lewis was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks, and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. He is co-author of the first comics work ever to win the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir trilogy MARCH, written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell. He is also the recipient of numerous awards from national and international institutions including the Lincoln Medal, the John F. Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NAACP Spingarn Medal, among many others. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

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    Mike D'Orso's work includes sixteen books, all in the form of narrative nonfiction. His subjects range from politics to professional football, from racial conflict to environmental destruction, from inner-city public education to social justice to spinal cord injury. The settings for his books range from Arctic Alaska to the Galapagos Islands to the swamps of rural Florida.

    Honors for Mike's work include the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of the Year list, Newsweek Magazine's 2009 list of "50 Books For Our Times," the American Library Association's Alex Award, the Lillian Smith Book Award for writing on social justice, the Christopher Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the American Library Association's Nonfiction Book of the Year, selection among the New York Public Library's "25 Best Books of the Year", and inclusion three times in The Sporting News' annual Best Sports Stories anthology. Eight of Mike's books have been bestsellers. Three have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His newspaper work as a feature writer at the Virginian-Pilot was also nominated three times for a Pulitzer.

    Mike's work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Outside, Cosmopolitan, Audubon, Reader's Digest, Business Week, People, and The Oxford American magazines, as well as in numerous major metropolitan newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. He has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," C-Span's "Book TV," MSNBC and numerous National Public Radio programs, including Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know?"

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! Captivating! Emotional!
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John Lewis was a wise story teller, an excellent writer, a gentle soul, and a good person. He takes you by the hand and walks you through the story of his life starting as the dirt-poor son of an Alabama sharecropper, his terrifying experiences in the civil rights movement, and finally his work in politics. I didn’t know much about him going into the book and emerged with a new appreciation and respect for the man and his accomplishments. He delivers a keen insider view of the U.S. civil rights movement with its many historic events. Highly recommended no matter where you stand politically. His story is that good.
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Lisa Shoup
5.0 out of 5 stars The unsung greatest Civil Rights hero in U.S. history!
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What an amazing life! John Lewis was, in my humble opinion, the greatest Civil Rights leader in US history, bar none. He left home as a youth with nothing but the principles & ethics he learned as a sharecropper’s son, and he didn’t need much more than that. He was the personification of non-violent, passive resistance during the Civil Rights movement, never wavering from his strict moral code. When he was being approached by an army of Alabama state troopers, some of their deputies on horseback, at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday”, and he was at the front of the march, he just stood and let them knock him down. He was such an inspiration, at first as the leader of SNCC, and then as a city councilman in Atlanta, later as a Representative in the US Congress, and he always held to his ideals and strict ethical code I can think of NO better book to read to get a feeling of those who had “boots on the ground” in the struggle for Civil Rights, and what they struggled through to get where they got. All praise to Congressman John Lewis, one of this country’s greatest heroes ever!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A true American hero
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Reading Lewis' autobiography "Walking in the Wind" is a transformative experience. As a child growing up in the sixties and seventies, I heard a lot about the horrors of the Holocaust, but the horrors of Jim Crow were given short shrift in U.S. history classes. What Lewis experienced in the Freedom Rides were nothing short of horrific. At one point, he and a fellow activist were locked in a hamburger joint. The manager had locked both doors and vacated the store except for Lewis and his friend, then turned on a fumigator. The room filled with insecticide and Lewis was certain he was doomed. Just luck that someone called the fire department, and they were narrowly saved from death. That is just one example of what he went through. Of course the walk in Selma has been shown over and over again, but there are many, many instances like that that Lewis somehow miraculously lived through. A true testament to courage, integrity, and love, Lewis is an American hero right up there with Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. They should have a statue of him in D. C.
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This is a fascinating read. I don't know why Congressman Lewis hasn't received as much credit as he deserves for the courage he showed in risking his life to make our country better for everyone. Perhaps it is because he is a modest man. The memoir provides great insight as to what made up the character of Lewis and other brave young persons who were willing to take action to change a system that was immoral and was a hinderance to everyone, regardless of the color of his or her skin. Would the rest of us be as brave as Congressmen Lewis and his friends were in that very dangerous time? In all likelihood, very few of us probably would have been willing to do what these American heroes did. Learning why they were willing to risk their lives and the steps they took to prepare for the dangerous task ahead is more than worth the time and the very small amount of money you will trade for this experience. Thank you, Congressman, for what you did. Thank you for taking the time and effort to share your experiences with the rest of us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great memoir and painless way to learn about a critical era in American history
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John Lewis is a genuine American hero who is probably unknown to the majority of white Americans which is a real shame. In this memoir he writes about his life in the Civil Rights movement which is the chronicle of a man of a degree of character and principle that few other individuals, Black or white in the 20th century can claim. It is a story complete with intrigues, politics, and struggles that few people will ever experience but can learn about from a man who experience first hand from the front lines one of the greatest struggles for equality of the 20th century.
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Have you ever read a book that you couldn’t stop reading? Have you ever read a book that you can put down for a few days, a week and pick up right where you left off and never have missed a beat? Well, Walking With the Wind was everything for me. I took me to his place, in his mind and in his spirit. This made me want to get up and do something, for my fellow man and essentially for myself. A message that came as clear as day from reading this book. When we want something, we have to in some way want it for other people. In return, we will be fruitful. This book is like a reference guide for our future. In order to know where we’re going, we have to know where we’ve been. And while I didn’t live that life, I see the comparisons today and understand even more what needs to be done. Thank you Congressman John R. Lewis.
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Have you ever read a book that you couldn’t stop reading? Have you ever read a book that you can put down for a few days, a week and pick up right where you left off and never have missed a beat? Well, Walking With the Wind was everything for me. I took me to his place, in his mind and in his spirit. This made me want to get up and do something, for my fellow man and essentially for myself. A message that came as clear as day from reading this book. When we want something, we have to in some way want it for other people. In return, we will be fruitful. This book is like a reference guide for our future. In order to know where we’re going, we have to know where we’ve been. And while I didn’t live that life, I see the comparisons today and understand even more what needs to be done. Thank you Congressman John R. Lewis.
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Sharon A.
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I ordered this book after I heard President Obama's eulogy but wish I'd known about John Lewis sooner. I thought I knew quite a bit about the civil rights movement but I was wrong. I find I'm having trouble putting my thoughts and feelings about this book into words so I'll just say that I'm very glad that I read it, I learned a lot and I found many reasons to count my blessings while reading it. It should be required reading in schools.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating history of the mid-20th century civil rights movement
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This is a superb book. Whilst John Lewis (currently a member of the Georgia contingent of the House of Representatives) isn't as well known as some of his contemporaries in the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s (such as Dr. Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph and Ralph Abernathy), his role in the struggle for equal rights for all citizens of the United States, regardless of colour of skin, cannot be underestimated.

Born into obscurity in back-woods Alabama, son of two sharecroppers, the author found his voice in activism and the civil rights movement at a relatively early age. This led to his involvement with some of the key individuals in the movement, such as Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy and (fleetingly) Malcolm X. Lewis's main focus was the SNCC organisation, which was firmly on the side of non-violent action like sit-ins at food counters and getting people to register to vote. In doing this, he butted heads with some of the most unpleasant of segregationists, such as Eugene "Bull" Connor and George Wallace.

I have read a large number of books on the civil rights movement over the years and this particular tome is one of the best. The chapter on the Freedom Ride from Washington DC to New Orleans is gripping and extraordinary; it leaves you out of breath at the end. It doesn't stop there, as Lewis later relates his role in the Selma to Montgomery marches and his beating at the hand of Alabama State Troopers. Despite all these negative experiences and the injuries he sustains, his passion for the movement remains undimmed and his tireless quest for the values he so firmly believes in continues unabated.

The book ends the late 1990s, with the author firmly established in the House of Representatives and married with a son.

It would be interesting indeed to read a revised version of this book that covered John Lewis's career up to the present day. In the intervening period, he has continued to fight for his non-violent beliefs, and it would be well worth reading his thoughts on the Iraq war and other such conflicts, as well as how he sees America today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An intimate book from a giant of a man
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At times, very difficult to read - knowing how much has been done, but also how much remains to be done. Harrowing, heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful and inspiring.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting.
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Recently read this book......absolutely amazing...every page engages the reader. It's tough to take in all that went on despite knowing all that went on. I can only admire Mr Lewis.....resilience and an unshakeable belief in equality. Highly recommended.
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