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

to play a complex and duplicitous game.
To Bull Connor, they pretended that they
had a hundred times more supporters
than they did. To the press, they
pretended that they were shocked at the
way Connor let his dogs loose on their
protesters—while at the same time, they
were jumping for joy behind closed
doors. And to the parents whose
children they were using as cannon
fodder, they pretended that Bull
Connor’s prisons were a good place for
their children to catch up on their
reading.
But we shouldn’t be shocked by this.
What other options did Walker and King
have? In the traditional fable of the
Tortoise and the Hare, told to every