Reluctant Neighbors

On a commuter train traveling from New Canaan, Connecticut, to New York's Grand Central Station, a well-heeled white suburbanite reluctantly takes the only available seat and eventually strikes up a conversation with the black man sitting next to him. The white businessman's verbal barrage of insensitive questions and offensive remarks incites a rage in his black neighbor that can barely be suppressed. But the offended rider is E. R. Braithwaite-former Royal Air Force pilot, Cambridge graduate, schoolteacher, social worker, diplomat, and bestselling author-and he has triumphed over prejudice and hatred throughout his truly extraordinary life and multifaceted career.