"As David Margolick's brilliantly layered exposition reveals, plumbing 'the depths of the depths' of race and racism is a most complex exercise. And as I plumbed the depths of his narrative, I found it at once painful, as well as elevating, and unlike anything I've ever read on the subject. It should be required reading for a nation still struggling with what Margolick refers to as 'the thicket of race.'"-Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place