“Fascinating and remarkably empathetic.” —The Atlantic Monthly“[There Goes My Everything is] on my personal list of the year’s best books.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “A richly documented, often compellingly dramatic narrative, whose strength is its absence of polemic.” —Dallas Morning News"As eye-opening a look at race relations in the Civil Rights Era as anything this side of Dr. King’s own Letter From a Birmingham Jail."—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette“Simply stunning…This is one of the few books about the civil rights movement…that gets it right…Deserves to be read by every American.” —Tucson Citizen