Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America Jeremy F. Shapiro Isolation has taken its toll

Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts

blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line

and in Montauk

But Alex was insistent

Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America Jeremy F. Shapiro Isolation has taken its tollI loved this book. I looked forward to [it] more than any other in a long time, and Howard Bryant exceeded my great expectations. Kings and Pawns is brilliantly conceived and powerfully written. David Maraniss, author of Path Lit by Lightning A path breaking work of biography of two American giants, Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson, whose lives would forever be altered by the Cold War, and would explosively intersect before its most notorious weapon,