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Tennessean Excerpt #3

December 2, 2014

tn_tncom_RGBIn today’s 3rd and final Tennessean excerpt from Strong Inside, a glimpse at an event on the Vanderbilt campus that revealed how people from different backgrounds could view the same episode: An induction into a secret society gone terribly wrong.

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  • “In a magnificently reported, nuanced
    but raw account of basketball and racism in the South during the 1960s, Andrew Maraniss tells the story of Perry Wallace’s struggle, loneliness, perseverance and eventual self-realization. A rare story about physical and intellectual courage that is both shocking and triumphant. ”

    Bob Woodward, Washington Post associate editor and author

Watch Andrew Maraniss talk about his inspiration to write Strong Inside, featuring archival footage of Perry Wallace in action.
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