Description: This compelling story of a black man's journey through the mostly white world of the legal profession in America presents a thought-provoking courtroom drama with the fast pace of a commercial novel.
Review Quotes: "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. Simpson