Recently finished two books.

"Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," by Geoffrey C. Ward. A biography of the heavyweight boxing champion and a portrait of America's attitudes on race in the early 20th-century. Ward is an exceptional writer.

"Songs of the Gorilla Nation," by Dawn Prince-Hughes. Autobiography of an anthropologist who is autistic; how she learned socialization through her contacts with a family of gorillas at the Seattle zoo. A total eye-opener about gorillas, and about Asperger's Syndrome.

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