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Steve Luxenberg
Positive The New York Times Book Review \"... absorbing ... Luxenberg’s history contains so many surprises, absurdities and ironies that it would be a shame to spoil the final chapters by revealing which justice ended up on which side ... Along with the court cases and the three lovingly researched lives, Luxenberg devotes many lively and illuminating pages to race and politics in New Orleans. That’s a lot for one book. Still, the subtitle of \'Separate\' is misleading. Only the last section is about Plessy, and the book is not the story of \'America’s journey from slavery to segregation\' ... The subtitle is also misleading because separate and unequal extended far beyond transportation and accommodations to education, employment, health care, credit, housing and criminal justice ... Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.\
Steven Levingston
Positive The New York Times Book Review \"Levingston writes with passion and flair. If these pages don’t rouse you, call your doctor ... There are places where Levingston the writer (displaying the occupational weaknesses for stark contrasts and sudden twists of drama) gets the better of Levingston the historian ... Levingston’s frame does not fit, but he is too good a writer to get in the way of his history for long. Kennedy and King will most likely leave readers thinking that what is needed today is not more leaders, a few men and women shaping our destiny, but more followers.\