I was over at My Friend Amy’s Blog this morning, and found out that she’s hosting an interesting challenge — to get 50 book bloggers to read the books from the “50 Books For our Time” list put out by Newsweek, recently.
So, since there were only 2 or 3 books left to choose from, I chose “Walking with the Wind” by John Lewis. Here’s the description of it from Amazon.com:
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late ’50s and ’60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Written with charm, warmth, and honesty, Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” While there have been exceptional books on the movement, there has never been a front-line account by a man like John Lewis. A true American hero, his story is “destined to become a classic in civil rights literature.” (Los Angeles Times)
This book will be just a little out of my comfort zone, and it’s definitely going to be a challenge (it’s 496 pages long, too!). But, that’s okay… it sounds like a good one to try. 
My review will be posted here when I finish reading. I’ve already put a hold on this title at my local library.
