The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America

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Dutton, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 296 pages
"He was a poor kid who grew up believing that if you played by the rules and worked hard, you'd succeed. And for a while he did. Larry Mungin's pursuit of the American Dream took him from a Queens housing project to Harvard Law School and to the Washington, D.C., office of Katten Muchin, a blue-chip Chicago law firm, where he worked toward achieving a coveted partnership. Everything was in place; he'd spent his whole life preparing to make it in the white world, and now he was ready to reap the rewards. But instead of becoming a partner, Mungin became the plaintiff in a racial discrimination suit that would rock the legal world and turn his life into a struggle for survival. What went wrong? What turned the American Dream into an American nightmare?"--BOOK JACKET.

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CHAPTER FIVE
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About the author (1999)

Paul M. Barrett is the Deputy Legal Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He was nominated by The Wall Street Journal for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.