Jon Else was series producer and cinematographer for <i>Eyes on the Prize</i> and has produced and directed many award-winning documentaries, including <i>The Day After Trinity</i>and <i>Cadillac Desert</i>. Else has been nominated for two Academy Awards and three Emmys, and is the winner of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship and one Emmy, several Alfred I. DuPont and Peabody Awards, and the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker s Trophy. He is Professor and North Gate Chair in Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps the greatest American documentary series ever made. Jon Else helped film it, and, two decades earlier, as a civil rights worker in the South, he lived through part of the history involved. He tells the story with the compassion and eloquence it deserves. Adam Hochschild, author of <i>King Leopold's Ghost, Bury the Chains, </i> and<i> To End All Wars</i>