{"title":"John Lewis","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Lewis’s works offer profound insights into the struggles and triumphs of the civil rights movement through compelling \u003cem\u003ebiography and memoir\u003c\/em\u003e. His storytelling, often infused with a vivid graphic novel style, brings history to life with passion and clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect narratives that combine personal experience with broader social justice themes, illuminating both the challenges faced and the enduring hope for equality. These books inspire reflection on courage, activism, and the pursuit of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"his-truth-is-marching-on-by-jon-meacham-9781984855046","title":"His Truth Is Marching On","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/em\u003e. An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Soul of America\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003cem\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e AND \u003cem\u003eCOSMOPOLITAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called \"the better angels of our nature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom an early age, Lewis learned that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family's chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it—his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God—and an unshakable belief in the power of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeacham 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 Republic itself in the eighteenth century.\" A believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbour as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realising its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46344168734956,"sku":"9781984855046","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19074203482894.jpg?v=1744013100"},{"product_id":"run-by-andrew-aydin-9781419730696","title":"Run","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind \u003cem\u003eMarch\u003c\/em\u003e comes the first book in their new, groundbreaking graphic novel series, \u003cem\u003eRun: Book One\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Run recounts the lost history of what too often follows dramatic change—the pushback of those who refuse it and the resistance of those who believe change has not gone far enough. John Lewis's story has always been a complicated narrative of bravery, loss, and redemption, and \u003cem\u003eRun\u003c\/em\u003e gives vivid, energetic voice to a chapter of transformation in his young, already extraordinary life.\" - Stacey Abrams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In sharing my story, it is my hope that a new generation will be inspired by \u003cem\u003eRun\u003c\/em\u003e to actively participate in the democratic process and help build a more perfect Union here in America.\" - Congressman John Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequel to the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling graphic novel series \u003cem\u003eMarch\u003c\/em\u003e—the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Selma voting rights campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo John Lewis, the civil rights movement came to an end with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. But that was after more than five years as one of the preeminent figures of the movement, leading sit-in protests and fighting segregation on interstate busways as an original Freedom Rider. It was after becoming chairman of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and being the youngest speaker at the March on Washington. It was after helping organise the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the ensuing delegate challenge at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. And after co-leading the march from Selma to Montgomery on what became known as \"Bloody Sunday.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll too often, the depiction of history ends with a great victory. But John Lewis knew that victories are just the beginning. In \u003cem\u003eRun: Book One\u003c\/em\u003e, John Lewis and longtime collaborator Andrew Aydin reteam with Nate Powell—the award-winning illustrator of the \u003cem\u003eMarch\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy—and are joined by L. 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