Fine storytelling and cogent history, this book is recommended to every reader interested in civil rights and southern history.--Choice "Provides students a gripping introduction to the complexities of the civil rights movement and exerts a significant improvement upon the existing literature.--Journal of American History "A worthy biography of its little-known martyr.--American Historical Review "A very good book. . . . The story of Jonathan Daniels and Tom Coleman is complex, ambiguous, and multi-layered. Eagles is attuned to its nuances and explores them sensitively.--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "A riveting history. . . . In his story of how Jon Daniels lived out his faith, Charles Eagles has given us a rich and important book.--William H. Chafe, New York Times Book Review "Never before has the tragic story of Jonathan Daniels been told in so much detail, and with so much sympathy and understanding for all the people who were caught up in it. This book allows us a deeply moving glimpse of how the civil rights movement was actually experienced by the ordinary men and women whom it touched.--J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan "A well-written and engaging narrative of how the lives of two white men, one a liberal northerner and the other an unreconstructed southerner, become enmeshed in the civil rights movement in Lowndes County, Alabama. This sensitive exploration of a poignant and tragic encounter succeeds because it so perceptively shows us the importance of both these individuals and their worlds to a fuller understanding of the movement.--Waldo E. Martin, Jr., University of California, Berkeley
