A Black and White Case: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge, 2nd Edition

"Stohr deserves the highest praise for tackling one of the most complex issues in the high court's caseload and doing it fairly and well." (United Press International, 10/15/04)

"Stohr has produced a brisk yet meaty book that establishes him as a first-rate legal journalist. Move over Jeffrey Toobin." (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/26/04)

"An engrossing, thought-provoking, fast-paced read, A Black and White Case thoroughly and even-handedly captures both sides of an epic legal struggle that will affect American race relations for decades to come."
—Debra Dickerson
Author, The End of Blackness and An American Story

"Greg Stohr has found the grays in A Black and White Case. He has written a full, fair, and scrupulously balanced account of the surprising legal battle that was supposed to end the use of race as a factor in college admissions, but instead gave affirmative action its biggest win ever in the Supreme Court."
—David Savage
Supreme Court reporter for the Los Angeles Times

"By setting out in detail the constitutional questions posed by racial preference and the individual lives of litigants, advocates, and judges directly involved in these landmark cases, Greg Stohr's book supplies a valuable chronicle for the national discussion that necessarily continues. No one who honestly wants to reach common ground can fail to be benefited by canvassing the ground already traversed with A Black and White Case as their guide."
—Douglas W. Kmiec
Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law, Pepperdine University

"A Black and White Case raised my understanding of last year's Supreme Court cases on affirmative action to an entirely new level. This makes the book essential reading for college admissions professionals. The surprise bonus is that it is truly a page-turner, immensely readable, engaging in human terms, and well informed. It's a special pleasure to learn a lot from a book you also enjoy with every passing page."
—William M. Shain
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Vanderbilt University

"A fascinating and compelling account of landmark cases on an issue of enormous importance in American society. Greg Stohr's description of the University of Michigan affirmative action cases is a terrific account of litigation that will affect America's colleges and universities for years to come."
—Erwin Chemerinsky
Alston & Bird Professor of Law, Duke Law School

"Every major decision by the Court is but the culmination of a fascinating drama, one that may have taken years to unfold. It takes a particular gift for a writer to reconstruct such a story and to sustain a lively interest in it even though we know what its last chapter will say. Greg Stohr has given us an impressive retelling of this story, with vivid portraits of the actors and a richly detailed account of the maneuvering, manipulating, and massaging that went into each side's strategy."
—Lyle Denniston
Supreme Court reporter since 1958
Covered the Michigan cases for the Boston Globe