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Author:   Paul M. Barrett
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Plume
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9780452278592

ISBN 10:   0452278597
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter One: ""Don't Be Afraid; I'm One of the Good Blacks"" Chapter Two: ""Eat What You Kill"" Chapter Three: ""You Don't Want to Mess with This Guy"" Chapter Four: ""Play by the Rules and the System Will Treat You Right"" Chapter Five: ""You'll Get Screwed the Way I Got Screwed"" Chapter Six: ""A Balls-Out Firm"" Chapter Seven: ""What Are You Doing with That Nigger Friend?"" Chapter Eight: ""A Cocky Guy in for a Fall"" Chapter Nine: ""Saving Mungin"" Chapter Ten: ""You Fell Between the Cracks"" Chapter Eleven: ""As Long As You Get a Paycheck, You Do as You're Told"" Chapter Twelve: ""They Promised You the World; They Gave You the Street Corner"" Chapter Thirteen: ""I Am a Whistle-Blower"" Chapter Fourteen:"" There Will Be a Trial"" Chapter Fifteen: ""Racism: When It's There, You Can See It"" Chapter Sixteen: ""It's My Party; I'll Cry If I Want To"" Chapter Seventeen: ""Afraid We Would Lose Him"" Chapter Eighteen: ""Shucking and Jiving"" Chapter Nineteen: ""Teach the Firm a Lesson"" Chapter Twenty: ""We Were Pushing for Him"" Chapter Twenty-One: ""God Has a Plan for Everybody"" Chapter Twenty-Two: ""No Reasonable Juror..."" Chapter Twenty-Three"": Conclusion: Integration's Paradox Epilogue Afterword Index"

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A dramatic real-life page-turner . -- USA Today

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Paul M. Barrett is an assistant managing editor and senior writer at Businessweek. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, and The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America. Barrett lives and works in New York City.

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