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Unabridged. |
| Description |
8 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
100000 |
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1.4 m/s |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Title from web page. |
| Performer |
Read by JD Jackson ; with a note read by the author. |
| Summary |
An intimate and inspiring portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America. John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and a 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.' A believer in hope above all else, Lewis learned from a young age that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. |
| Subject |
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
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Protest movements -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists.
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HISTORY / African American.
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Lewis, John, 1940-2020. (OCoLC)fst01830728
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United States. Congress. House. (OCoLC)fst00536930
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African American civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799093
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Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
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Legislators. (OCoLC)fst00995828
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Protest movements. (OCoLC)fst01079826
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Audiobooks.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Lewis, John, 1940-2020, writer of afterword.
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Jackson, JD, narrator.
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| Standard No. |
9780593347843 |
| ISBN |
9780593347843 |
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0593347846 |
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