No greater love : the James Reeb story

"[The author} Duncan Howlett is Minister Emeritus of All Souls Church in Washington, D. C., and has written several books. . .He was active in the civil rights movements, and was the first chairman to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. [This book is about] a comparatively unknown

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minister who labored for social justice and rehabilitation in Boston's Roxbury community, James Reeb went to Selma, Alabama in 1965 to make a peaceful stand for civil rights. His brutal death at the hands of unknown assailants catapulted his name into headlines around the world and focused a nation's eyes on the growing civil rights movement. With all the shine and all the blemishes, Duncan Howlett retells that spiritual odyssey that lead James Reeb to Selma. . .Howlett's careful, undramatized precision does not try to enhance Reeb's character or to cast him in a heroic mold, but tells of a man who lived and loved and tried to make the world a better place." Source: The book's back cover.

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