Lonely At The Top
12 Oct
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Amazon.com Review:
Reginald Lewis–who died in 1993 when his daughter, Christina, was only 12–was the first black American to build a billion-dollar business. He was an impossibly confident, charismatic, and exacting man who studied his way out of segregated east Baltimore, and into a world of affluence dominated by whites. Lewis earned everything he got in life, except perhaps the one thing that set him on his path to success: admission to Harvard Law School. Family legend has it that Reginald literally talked his way into Harvard though an affirmative action program. It is this conundrum that leads his now-grown daughter–a former Wall Street Journal reporter–to interview his surviving friends, colleagues, and professors for insight into her father’s legacy, and his influence on her own sense of self. Along the way, she reveals fascinating tidbits about her life growing up black in the predominantly white world of New York’s wealthiest and most successful. The experience left her wondering where she truly belonged. In Lonely at the Top, Christina explores her deep-seated self-consciousness and feelings of worthlessness with unabashed and poignant honesty. –Paul Diamond
