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

power is not easy to learn. It requires
that those in positions of authority accept
that what they thought of as their greatest
advantage—the fact that they could
search as many homes as they wanted
and arrest as many people as they
wanted and imprison people for as long
as they wanted—has real constraints.
Caroline Sacks faced a version of this
when she realized that what she thought
was an advantage actually put her at a
disadvantage. But it is one thing to
acknowledge the limitations of your own
advantages if you are faced with the
choice between a very good school and
a very, very good school. It is quite
another when you have held your
daughter’s hand as she lay dying in a