Author Bios
The Detroit News © by George Weeks
“. . . more than a biography . . . highly readable manual on do’s and don’ts of legislative leadership . . . fascinating accounts . . . the book provides insights and intriguing nuggets about this influential craft [lobbying] . . . recommended reading for all those many new lawmakers just getting underway . . . .”
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Inside Michigan Politics © by Bill Ballenger
“What happens when principles collide with reality? Reality wins. . . . That’s what happened when IMP editor Bill Ballenger was asked by the authors of Man in Motion . . . to write the Foreword to their tome . . .(former Gov. John Engler wrote the Preface). . . .”
[Ballenger, no fan of term limits, cites Lockwood's brilliant eight-year Senate term, as an excellent example of how legislators' term limits could work.]
June 30, 2003
Michigan Lobbyist’s © "Radar Screen"
“Authors Marilyn and Stanley Fedewa began Man in Motion: Michigan’s Legendary Senate Majority Leader, Emil Lockwood at the request of their subject and his wife, Anna . . . [with] exclusive access to Lockwood’s trunks of political and personal papers . . . and have conducted scores of interviews with family members and friends, journalists and other political leaders . . . .”
Premier issue, Spring 2003
Morning Sun ©(Mt. Pleasant, MI) by Jen Campbell
“A well-respected maverick known for telling it like it is, Emil Lockwood made his place in history, and a recently published biography records his experiences for future generations . . . Lockwood had a tremendous sense of humor which is captured in the biography . . . He lived up to his reputation for telling it like it is . . . .”
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Ottawa Daily Times ©(IL) by Tammie Sloup
“Moral convictions, values and virtue were never handicaps for Emil Lockwood—an Ottawa native who climbed the political ladder all the way up to Michigan’s Senate Majority leader. . . . The book chronicles Lockwood’s boyhood years in Ottawa and follows his WWII kamikaze attacks in the South Pacific before he jumped into the maelstrom of the Michigan Senate . . . .”
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Michigan Political History Society © Volume 8, No. 2
This official biography, relying on a treasure trove of Lockwood’s personal files, picture albums . . . as well as extensive interviews by the authors, took over a year and a half to research and write. . . Bill Ballenger, who reviewed the manuscript, commented: “I take my hat off to you . . . . It provides a lot of insight into legislative leadership that I don’t think anybody would every really know about . . . if it wasn’t for you. . . .”
Spring 2003
MAN IN MOTION is available locally (in Lansing,Michigan) at Schuler Books in Eastwood Towne Centre (517-316-7495), Schuler Books at Meridian Mall (517-349-8840), and downtown at the Way Station Bookstore, 223 So. Washington Sq. (517-853-1336). Booksellers, schools, libraries, and retail purchasers, too, CLICK HERE for online purchase and distribution options. If you would like to schedule a Book Talk centered on the Lockwood biography, or another topic, please
contact Stanley C. Fedewa or Marilyn H. Fedewa.
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