Able to Lead restores E.T. Kingsley as a major figure among radical labour activists—all the more notable given his visible disability, which was not common among prominent political activists of his time. A welcome addition to disability history.

Geoffrey Reaume, York University

Malhotra and Isitt argue that Kingsley was a—perhaps the—central figure in Canadian socialism before the First World War. This is an informed and nuanced history of disability and legal history.

James Naylor, Brandon University

Able to Lead is a striking and essential retrieval of a life previously untold. As a disabled, working class radical, Kinglsey's story is a novel addition to North American biographies.
 

James Muir, University of Alberta