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Still, in Olympic City you can get a chill from something other than a giant Coke bottle. In the Coliseum Tent there is an exhibit of "priceless artifacts" from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Whether it be Baron Pierre de Coubertin's saber or Jesse Owens' track shoe or...
At the start of his exploration into the convoluted soul of Jesse Jackson, biographer Marshall Frady makes two highly charged assertions about the hugeness of the task. Any serious evaluation of Jackson, he writes, must begin with the acknowledgement that "the fundamental American crisis is that of race"; and with...
In this astonishing biography, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (Random House; 552 pages; $28.50), Frady proves that the first concern is valid, if limiting, but that the second, at least in his case, is misplaced. This is as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer...
The fact that Jackson was born black in the segregated South is essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of...
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