The Hidden Wound.(Review)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: Garrow, David J. | Copyright information

The story of a black lawyer who tried and failed to ignore his race

Paul Barrett's powerful and poignant book about the life and legal career of his one-time Harvard Law School roommate has lessons aplenty for anyone interested in affirmative action, employment litigation, or judicial racism.

Lawrence Mungin made it from a single-parent household in a Queens, New York, public housing project to Harvard College and then Harvard Law School before finally having ...

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