"Lending Power is Howard Covington’s uplifting and compelling account of a credit union that champions the underserved.... This is a positive, inspiring look at a socially conscious, soundly managed mission-driven organization."
-- Barry Silverstein Foreword Reviews
"The book offers important perspectives on the Great Recession mortgage crisis.... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."
-- E. C. Erickson Choice
"The story not just of the rise of a radical credit union but also of its role in the community that shaped it, which saw it work with churches, civil rights activists, maverick philanthropists and city planners to deliver change. . . . Lively and absorbing...."
-- Co-Op News
"Howard Covington Jr.'s work provides an interesting and engaging description of Self-Help Credit Union and the CRL. . . . Lending Power clearly provides an excellent example of social entrepreneurship that can provide valuable lessons for anyone working to accomplish a social objective."
-- Stephen G. Morrissette Business History Review
"Covington’s account of an alternative model of banking, credit, and economic empowerment thus suggests both the historical and the political imperatives of excavating the voices who have long occupied the sidelines of debates about the organization of American capitalism. In this regard, Lending Power is an important intervention."
-- Alec Hickmott Journal of Southern History