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

variety as David Boies’s dyslexia or Jay
Freireich’s painful childhood. He was
from a community that had always been
the underdog. By the time the civil rights
crusade came to Birmingham, African-
Americans had spent a few hundred
years learning how to cope with being
outgunned and overmatched. Along the
way they had learned a few things about
battling giants.