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"I was taught to avoid showing off," Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jefferson (writing, Columbia Univ.; On Michael Jackson) begins. "But isn't all memoir a form of showing off?" That hesitation permeates throughout, the restraint perfectly mimicked in Robin Miles's elegant recitation. This work is a gorgeous examination—personally, socially, historically—of Jefferson's name "for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty." Jeffer...Log In or Sign Up to Read More