02785cam a2200349 4500 431638441 TxAuBib 20200904120000.0 200801s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781984855022 HRD 30.00 1984855026 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib Meacham, Jon, 1969- His truth is marching on [BOOK] : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis. John Lewis and the power of hope. 1st ed. New York : Random House Inc, 2020. xii, 354 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Overture: the last march -- A hard life, a serious life -- The spirit of history -- Soul force -- In the image of God and democracy -- We are going to make you wish you was dead -- I'm going to die here -- This country don't run on love -- Epilogue: against the rulers of the darkness. "John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence. 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. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God. Meacham calls Lewis "as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the nation-state in the eighteenth century. He did what he did--risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful--not in spite of America, but because of America, and not in spite of religion, but because of religion.". 20200904. Lewis, John 1940-2020. Lewis, John 1940-2020. Religion. United States Congress House Biography. Protest movements United States. African American civil rights workers Biography. Civil rights workers United States Biography. Legislators United States Biography. Biographies. Lewis, John, 1940-2020, author of afterword.