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John Lewis: The Last Interview

John Lewis: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

About the Book

Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today

Throughout John Lewis’s long and storied career he maintained a seemingly unwavering hope for a better future. This hope can be traced throughout the inteviews collected here. From a young activist testifying in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday to recounting the violence he met as a Freedom Rider to an elder statesman inspired by today's civil rights activists, this collection forms a portrait of a man whose life was spent fighting for a better world and never lost hope.
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Praise for John Lewis: The Last Interview

"From Alabama’s notorious Edmund Pettus Bridge to the marbled corridors of Washington, Lewis was always up to “good trouble,” imbuing each word and deed with passion and persuasion... John Lewis: The Last Interview is, in a sense, his audition as a national figure." -- Oprah Daily
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About the Author

Jelani Cobb
Jelani Cobb is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. His most recent book is The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. More by Jelani Cobb
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MELVILLE HOUSE
Melville House is an independent publisher located in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2001 by sculptor Valerie Merians and fiction writer/journalist Dennis Johnson, in order to publish Poetry After 9/11, a book of material culled from Johnson’s groundbreaking MobyLives book blog. The material consisted of things sent in to the blog by writers and poets in response to the 9/11 attacks, and Johnson and Merians felt it better represented the spirit of New York than the call to war of the Bush administration. More by MELVILLE HOUSE
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