Memoir of a lawyer who leaves his career to live in apartheid South Africa, blending personal adventure with reflections on race from his Jim Crow childhood.
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Memoir of a lawyer who leaves his career to live in apartheid South Africa, blending personal adventure with reflections on race from his Jim Crow childhood.
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What are you going to do with this life you've been given? Turn it into an adventure.Who would find being an over-paid trial lawyer at the fancy-pants Jones Day law firm boring and confining? Me. In 1988, I walked away from a promising legal career in Los Angeles to start my life over on the other side of the world in Cape Town. I moved to South Africa when the minority white government's apartheid police state was at its worst -- spawning political violence, forcing foreign companies to disinve...
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References to political violence and fighting in Jordan during Black September
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Central focus on apartheid South Africa, Jim Crow south, and racial segregation
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Depictions of systemic racial oppression, apartheid violence, and Jim Crow-era suffering
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