“David Lowe brings Morris Abram to life, vividly describing Abram’s powerful intellect and his passionate, effective pursuit of noble causes.”

—George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state

“A long overdue biography of a Southern white civil rights pioneer, American Jewish leader, Brandeis University president, U.S. ambassador, and human rights activist who ended up on the wrong side of the 1960s and whom history has unjustly forgotten. This is an instructive tale of liberalism’s swerve and of roads not taken.”

—Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University

“Morris Abram will always be remembered at the American Jewish Committee as a towering Jewish leader of the twentieth century. David Lowe compellingly traces his career as advocate extraordinaire for civil and human rights, Israel, and Soviet Jewry. Abram’s model of effective leadership continues to be instructive, as this impressive volume highlights.”

—David Harris, CEO of American Jewish Committee