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

attendees at the meeting was the
president’s wife,” page 292; “A Jew is
just a ‘nigger turned inside out,’” page
292; “A black man in Chicago wakes up
one morning,” page 30; “They were
astounded to watch King,” page 277;
“militant out of Dr. Seuss,” page 359;
“We got to use what we got,” page 363;
“The K-9 Corps,” page 372; and “Sure,
people got bit by the dogs,” page 375.
McWhorter’s account of the showdown
in Kelly Ingram Park is extraordinary. I
have greatly condensed it.
King’s mock eulogy appears in Taylor
Branch’s Parting the Waters: America
in the King Years 1954–63 (Simon and
Schuster, 1988), 692. For Branch’s