Civil rights hero John Lewis celebrated in David Greenberg’s biography

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, along with Martin Luther King Jr., become the personification of nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement.

Despite being beaten and arrested time and again at sit-ins in Nashville, on the Freedom Rides and elsewhere, Lewis’s ability to repeatedly endure violence and hatred with dignity is almost unfathomable.

David Greenberg’s biography, “John Lewis: A Life”...