"Breathtakingly important. . . . David France managed to simultaneously break my heart and rekindle my anger." --Steven Petrow, The Washington Post

"Inspiring. We owe so much to those brave activists and to Mr. France for writing this vital book." --Anderson Cooper, The Wall Street Journal

"France delivers a monumental punch in the gut; his book is as moving and involving as a Russian novel. . . . An intimate, searing memoir and a vivid, detailed history." --The Washington Post

"A riveting, galvanizing account." --The New Yorker

"So real to someone who witnessed it that I had to put this volume down and catch my breath." --Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review

"A remarkably written and highly relevant record of what angry, invested citizens can come together to achieve, and a moving and instructive testament to one community's refusal--in the face of ignorance, hatred and death--to be silenced or to give up." --Chicago Tribune