Description: A new edition of this important book that places its uncommon chronicle of two men--one African American and one Jewish--within the context of America's current struggles with race.
Review Quotes: Divided into three parts with nine well-delineated chapters, this 'historian, medical humanist, and writer' chronicled his struggle to write this biography as much as Stearns struggled to assert his identity as a Black man trying to bring equality to Texans as he descended into insanity. As such, this biography joins the genre of other biographies of civil rights activists such as David Garrow's biography of King, Les and Tamara Payne's biography of Malcolm X, and David Levering Lewis's biography of W.E.B. Du Bois . . . this biography paints an intriguing and complex picture of Stearns.-- "Journal of African American History" (1/29/2024 12:00:00 AM)