When civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia died last month, so did a big piece of America. Lewis was the rarest of things — a politician who was roundly admired by Americans ...

WASHINGTON D.C. - MARCH 17: Congressman John Lewis (D-GA ... he offers the first comprehensive biography of the late civil rights giant, charting Lewis’s move “from poverty to protest to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist’s FBI files and materials from a planned ...

With John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, Raymond Arsenault, professor emeritus of Southern history at the University of South Florida, has produced the first comprehensive biography of ...

Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham celebrates that fearlessness in a biography “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis And The Power Of Hope.” ‘METROFOCUS’ IS MADE ...

JOHN LEWIS: A Life ... and vulnerability by the seemingly eternally optimistic Lewis are partly what makes Greenberg’s biography of the civil rights icon so remarkable. It would have been ...

"HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON: JOHN LEWIS AND THE POWER OF HOPE" by ... Although timely, the Lewis biography is not a recent undertaking. Meacham writes in an author's note that he first met Lewis ...

John Lewis, the civil rights ... the congressman near the end of his life. (Lewis also contributes an afterword.) The aim is less a comprehensive biography than “an appreciative account of ...

John Lewis rubbed the scar on his forehead ... "A biblical figure," said historian Jon Meacham, author of a biography of Lewis being published this fall. Many called him "the conscience of ...

Professor of history, David Greenberg, joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss his new expansive biography on John Lewis. The memoir reveals surprising details about his accomplishments and the ...

In “John Lewis: A Life” (Simon & Schuster), an appropriately weighty new biography, the historian David Greenberg explains what happened next. Obama’s poll numbers kept improving ...