New Biography Admires John Lewis' Faith That 'It's All Going To Work Out'
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 of different political stripes (with the exception of President Trump, who criticized Lewis for not attending his inauguration, claiming that "nobody has done more for Black Americans than I have").
Among Lewis' admirers is Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and journalist. Meacham tells the story of Lewis' involvement, published just weeks after the congressman's death. It's an interesting book, though limited in scope — while Meacham does a good job contextualizing Lewis' civil rights work in the 1960s, it doesn't paint a full portrait of the legendary activist.
