In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic congressman reacted after Republicans scored a landslide victory in the 1994 election. A staffer hoped Lewis would buoy her ...

John Lewis grew up in an Alabama family so poor that he and his young cousins once had to shuttle from room to room, acting as “ballast” to keep their aunt’s house from blowing away in a windstorm.

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 ...

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “John Lewis: A Life” by David Greenberg. (Simon & Schuster via AP) In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic ...

JOHN LEWIS: A Life. By David Greenberg. Simon & Schuster. 704 pages. $35. In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic congressman reacted after Republicans scored a ...