This is the definitive book on where Ronald Reagan came from and where he is now.
Imagine a large family gathering, something like the one Robert Frost describes in The Generations of Men
This book is an outgrowth of my reporting on the Argo Merchant incident in December 1976 and January 1977 for the Providence Journal
In the natural flow of Helen Lees life story a reader feels how racism eroded pride in the black middle classes as subtly and as steadily as drops of the old Chinese water torture.