Caroline V. Clarke with this book takes us into the minds of a collection of
27 contemporary African American achievers from investment banking, enter-tainment, aviation, and politics, with very diverse personal backgrounds. No
self-defeating thinking here.

Here's a quote from this book by Tom Jones, Chairman and CEO, Global
Investment Management and Private Banking Group, City Corp Inc.

...if somewhere along the line, my ancestors, in the
company of many, many others, had been willing to
draw the line, our entire history would have been
different in the sense that you can't be enslaved
unless you cooperate to a significant extent. You
cannot be oppressed unless you corporate, because your choice is always to fight and die.

Read this book and see what these achievers had to face, and they perse-vered. Persevered because they wanted to be the best they could be. They
didn't take on other peoples ignorance, or indulge in personal distraction. If
there's one overriding message from these achievers, it is "Know thy self. "

 The beauty of this book is that it does not seek to register any view point.
Just a school-of-hard-knocks path finder for success in the real world. These
achievers dealt with racism, and all the other obstacle courses on the road of
life and stayed disciplined, focused. The success lessons in this book tran-
scend race.