The Nashville Scene calls Strong Inside ‘superb’ in a review in the Nov. 13 issue. “Like any great biography,” the review begins, “Andrew Maraniss’ 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 them in return.”
Read Clay Risen’s full review here.