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    <body><![CDATA[Cannot get my book group to read this, but sure wish I could! It's neither encyclopedic nor droning. Historian Brinkley uses clear, direct prose to present a surprising picture of a woman we all thought we knew--the tired seamstress who couldn't take it any more. But no: Parks is a true original: Sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63769527">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a public service for American biography from the Penguin Lives series, for as far as I (and the author) can tell it is the only biography we currently have on Rosa Parks that is not a children's book...Rosa Parks has rightfully honored by AMericans, but we deserve and need to know more about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3367765">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has given me much deeper appreciation of Rosa Parks.  She was not the little lady who was simply too tired to give up her seat.  This book shows a Parks that was a revolutionary.  Not a radical or a full ideological follower of non-violence but somewhere in between.  This book brought to l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41477847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting biography... I never knew Rosa was such an activist all of her life!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Douglas Brinkley writing about Rosa Parks led me to have my doubts going it, but I was pleasantly surprised.  Not only is Rosa not overwhelmingly exhausted from her long day, but there are guns in her various homes and she supports Malcolm X.  A very surprising and refreshing narrative of Rosa Parks...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35322905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very insightful.  I had no idea that she was so involved. A big difference from the &quot;tired seamstress&quot; that didn't want to give up her seat that I learned in school.]]></body>
    
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