Donated to the Lisbon Public Library in memory of Paul and Marion Boy, and of Marion's long years of dedication as a teacher of Lisbon Children. From a Lisbon friend and parent. The Washington Post – Jonathan Yardley

[Booker T. Washington] wasn't the leader for 1940 or 1960 or today, but it is unfair to him, indeed it is unfair to history itself, to expect him to have been. Robert J. Norrell understands this and has written the story of his life as it actually was lived, not as we might wish it had been lived. Up from History is in all respects an exemplary book, scrupulously fair to its subject and thus to the reader as well.