“A groundbreaking biography gives this warrior her due.” — O magazine
A sweeping and timely biographical narrative about Ida B. Wells...a paragon of American history. — Ebony
“A hearty thumbs-up for this powerful retelling of her life.” — Essence
“Paula J. Giddings IDA: A SWORD AMONG LIONS (Amistad) is a worthy biography of the vibrant crusader who led the nation’s first campaign against lynching.” — Vogue
“Ida B. Wells was an inspired journalist, an uncompromising civil libertarian, and a woman far ahead of her patriarchal times—a ‘difficult’ woman. Paula Giddings’s monumental achievement restores this extraordinary contrarian to her place as one of the grand pace-setters of American social justice and female empowerment.” — David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois
“History at its best—clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject.” — Toni Morrison
“The best interpretation of black women and race and sex that we have.” — Women's Review of Books on When and Where I Enter
