BOOK REVIEW
BIOGRAPHY/ADVENTURE
Ben Montgomery
The Man Who Walked Backward: An
American Dreamer’s Search for Meaning
in the Great Depression
Little, Brown Spark
Hardcover, 978-0-3164-3806-3 (also available as an e-book and an audio-book), 304
pgs., $28.00
September 18, 2018
“Don’t worry. Do something.”
On April 15, 1931, Plennie Wingo, 36, of Abilene, Texas, donned a pin-striped suit, a tie, a fedora,
