The Wall Street Journal Reviews Black Maverick

Mark Bauerlein just reviewed my book, co-authored by Linda Royster Beito, Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Fortunately, he seems to like it! Here is an excerpt:

Howard drove Cadillacs and Buicks, wore fancy clothes, and loved guns and big-game hunting. He praised free enterprise with a Booker T. Washington fervor, believing entrepreneurs to be better agents of change than activists. He once sighed for “one bomb that could be fashioned that would blow every Communist in America right back to Russia where they belong.” A flamboyant Second Amendment, anti-communist capitalist doesn’t please journalists and historians searching for civil-rights martyrs.

“Black Maverick,” though, makes room for exactly such a figure, and rightly so. That Howard made an important contribution is unquestionable.