“For we are strangers before them,
and sojourners, as were all our fathers.
1 CHRONICLES 29:15
PREFACE TO THE 2004 EDITION
A LMOST A DECADE HAS passed since this book was first published. As I mention in thoriginal introduction, the
opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my electionas the first African-Americanpresident of the Harvard Law Review.