Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life (V Ethel Willis White Books)

Carl Maxey came from a childhood in the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home to make a name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer, and then as eastern Washington's first black lawyer and a renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog. Journalist Jim Kershner creates a moving portrait of the man called a ÒType-A GandhiÓ by the New York Times.

"Reads like a modern Dickens tale." -Law and Politics

"An essential biography of one city's civil rights hero, wonderfully written and impeccably researched." -Jess Walter, author of The Zero

Jim Kershner is a journalist for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane.