“A Superb Biography” – Chapter 16.org

Writing for the literary journal Chapter 16.org, New York Times editorial page editor Clay Risen calls Strong Inside a “superb biography.” Writes Risen, “Like any great biography, Strong Inside is about more than just its subject. It is a history of Vanderbilt, of Nashville, of the SEC; a history of basketball and Southern sports culture and how they clashed, time and again, with the forces of civil rights that transformed America in the 1960s. Above all it is a meditation on the personal price of progress, about what happens to the people we ask to be racial pioneers, and what we—as whites, as blacks—owe to them in return.” Check out the review here.