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John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg • Simon & Schuster • 2024 • 704 pages • $35 David Greenberg’s new book, John Lewis: A Life, is a well-researched, engaging, and revealing biography of the civil rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives for 33 years, from 1987 until his death in July 2020. Greenberg, a professor of history at Rutgers University and a contributing editor to Politico, has written the second complete biography on Lewis.

When President Trump named Oklahoma’s Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2016, he was a controversial pick. But Pruitt’s policy positions quickly became overshadowed by another set of problems when it was revealed that he crossed various ethical lines while in office. In one instance, he rented a condo co-owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist at a below-market rate. In another, he hired a dubiously massive security detail.

In November, citizens of the United States again voted against a woman who would have been the first female President, electing instead an unrepentant misogynist who has been accused of sexual wrongdoing by more than a dozen women and found liable by a jury for sexual abuse.