“Andrew Maraniss has written a gripping account of the tortured ordeal suffered by Perry Wallace, the celebrated college basketball star, who, in 1966, as a Vanderbilt Commodore, broke the racial color barrier in the Southeastern Conference. It is a story of a young black student’s courage in the face of taunting abuse from hostile, opposing fans – and the dissension that faced him on the Vanderbilt campus.”
John Seigenthaler, FORMER TENNESSEAN EDITOR