David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

point made about law schools in Outliers was, in retrospect, naive. I was not familiar with relative deprivation theory at the t ...

Chapter Four: David Boies A good general introduction to the problem of dyslexia is Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Sto ...

The puzzles about the bat and ball and the widgets come from Shane Frederick, “Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making,” Journa ...

Entrepreneurs: The Incidence; Their Coping Strategies and Their Business Skills,” Dyslexia 15, no. 4 (2009): 328– 46. The best h ...

ancient typewriters.” ...

Chapter Five: Emil “Jay” Freireich Sources for the London Blitz include Tom Harrisson, Living Through the B l i t z (Collins, 19 ...

(2004); and J. T. MacCurdy, The Structure of Morale (Cambridge University Press, 1943). “In October 1940 I had occasion to drive ...

“Parental Loss and Genius,” American Psychologist (March 1978): 211. Lucille Iremonger’s findings about the backgrounds of Engla ...

Studies 4 (1974); Robert S. Albert, Genius and Eminence (Pergamon Press, 1992); Colin Martindale, “Father’s Absence, Psychopatho ...

(Rutgers University Press, 1996), and Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, 2011). “There was a senior he ...

Birmingham, Alabama; The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Touchstone, 2002); “Hell, yeah, we’re going to ride,” ...

Chapter Six: Wyatt Walker The story of the photograph—and of all the iconic civil rights photographs—is brilliantly told by Mart ...

King and Walker for the use of children in the protests is on pages 82–86. Gadsden’s explanation of his actions (“I automaticall ...

attendees at the meeting was the president’s wife,” page 292; “A Jew is just a ‘nigger turned inside out,’” page 292; “A black m ...

description of Wyatt Walker (“he acquired dark-rimmed glasses”), see page 285. “As a general principle, Walker asserted that eve ...

“De rabbit is de slickest o’ all de animals de Lawd” is cited in Lawrence Levine’s Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-A ...

Project, housed in the Moorland- Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. See page 35 of the transcript. Also from the int ...

Civil Rights Oral History Project and housed in the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. “Pure j ...

tricked Brer Tiger into doing exactly what the small animals wanted (i.e., he begged to be tied up), so the nonviolent technique ...

The detail from the conversation between Pritchett and King about Pritchett’s wedding anniversary is cited in Howell Raines, My ...