"Superb and provocative. It will rivet anyone wondering why the struggle to racially integrate Corporate America has made such scant progress."-- David Segal, Washington Post "Like Grisham, Barrett has a knack for writing dramatically about lawyers and their world. What haunts this reader is the sadness of a man who spent his life trying to be 'a good black.'"-- Newsweek "An emotional roller coaster. Should serve as a wake-up call for those who have ignored the wide gulf between blacks and whites in the American workforce."-- Lawrence Otis Graham, author of Our Kind of People and Member of the Club "Barrett has written a fascinating racial Rashomon story. With unusual empathy and evenhandedness, Barrett illuminates the complicated workings of race in a middle-class, post-civil rights society--while at the same time spinning an absorbing courtroom yarn.

"-- Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land "A morality tale with a twist. Has the power to unsettle us and our self-congratulatory expectations."-- Denver Post "A remarkably clear portrait. part case comment, part biography, and part snapshot of race relations at the end of the twentieth century."-- Harvard magazine "Powerful and poignant."-- David J. Garrow, author of Bearing the Cross "Raises all the right questions. paints an intimate picture.

illustrates one of the modern-day iterations of the debate about race."-- Chicago Tribune "An important story. No one who cares about the future of black-white relations in this country can afford to ignore its lessons."-- Charles Lane, editor, The New Republic " The Good Black really is The Firm . Illuminates not only the avarice at the core of modern law practice but the never-ending ambiguities of race."-- Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J.

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