The I Index

John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community (Black Lives)

Top of the pile

83

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

98/100

Critics

67/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Raymond Arsenault

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Date:

January 16, 2024

The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis

What The Reviewers Say

Brandon Tensley,
The Washington Post
The arc of Lewis’s life is ably accounted for in historian Raymond Arsenault’s new book, John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, though it sometimes drains its subject of his dynamism, focusing on the bare facts of his life at the expense of emotional punch.
Matthew F. Delmont,
The New York Times Book Review
Deeply researched and accessible.
Henry L. Carrigan, Jr,
BookPage
Captivating.

Kirkus
Comprehensive.